Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet in Sheffield, England is a steel working site with a very long history. It is run as a museum by the Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust (http://www.simt.co.uk/). Companion sites are the Kelham Island Museum and the Shepherd Wheel.
The site lies on the River Sheaf, South of Sheffield. It consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that form a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s.
The site has been used for ironforging for 500 years, although there is evidence of other metal working prior to 1200AD.
The site processes iron and coke into steel using techniques that originated with Benjamin Huntsman's invention of the crucible steel making process. The river provides water power via a water wheel. The wheel drives a tilt hammer for the initial forging of the scythe blades, and grindingmachinery (which is also powered by steam). The blades are also hand forged.
The site is a working museum, and demonstrates many of the processes, from steel-making on.
AbbeydaleIndustrialHamlet is a steel working site which has been used for ironforging for at least 500 years.
A great deal of work has been carried out here to ensure the stuffy image of museums and industry is well and truly an anachronism; with CD ROMs, an interactive gallery and a particularly innovative audio tour all available to visitors there is a strong sense of the contemporary.
While much of Abbeydale is obviously devoted to kids there are also a number of portfolios which detail both the processes and the people involved in steel making.
AbbeydaleIndustrialHamlet is an industrialmuseum in the south of the City of Sheffield, England.
It consists of a number of dwellings and workshops that were formerly the Abbeydale Works—a scythe-making plant that was in operation until the 1930s—and is a remarkably complete example of the kind of works that were once common in the Sheffield area.
AbbeydaleIndustrialHamlet is run as a working museum, with works and buildings dating from between 1785 and 1840.
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