The links on this page open interactive panoramas that enable you to look all the way around a scene. Just click and drag on the images to move about.

[The full-screen panoramas require Quicktime to be installed on your PC and a broadband internet connection]

View from the middle of the Forge yard

Showing the Forge building and workers' cottages, the smithy and the smithy
extension.

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View from the south end of the Forge yard

Showing particularly the workers' cottages and the smithy.

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Inside the Forge building - north end

Showing Number 1 water wheel and sprung tilt hammer, and also the blowing
engine water wheel.

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Showing Number 2 water wheel and its tilt hammer.

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View from the south-west corner of the Forge yard

Showing particularly the workers' cottages and wash-house and also the end
of the smithy.

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View from the south end of the cottage yard

Showing the cottages and wash-house, and also the earth closets and the
workshops building.

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View from the cottage garden

Showing the restored workshops building comprising the foundry, the
blacksmiths' shop and the joiners' shop.

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Inside the upstairs joiners' shop

Showing our collection of small stationary steam engines. The cast-iron roof
truss is from Strutts' cotton mill at Milford near Derby.

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Inside the 'foundry'

The foundry houses our collection of larger stationary steam engines.

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Inside the blacksmiths' shop

The original blacksmiths' shop houses a collection of line-shaft driven, old
machine-tools; it is also our general maintenance workshop.

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