38-581: The Nottingham Industrial Museum is a volunteer-run museum situated in part of the 17th-century stables block of Wollaton Hall , located in a suburb of the city of Nottingham. The museum won the Nottinghamshire Heritage Site of the Year Award 2012 , a local accolade issued by Experience Nottinghamshire. The Museum collection closed in 2009 after Nottingham City Council withdrew funding, but has since reopened at weekends and bank holidays, helped by
76-535: A 1910 warp knitting machine, a Wilman Circular, an Old Loughborough Bobbinet, a 1910 Heathcoat, a Leavers machine and a Barmen lace machine. In 2018, the Leavers lace machine was returned to operational condition. There is a small collection of restored Raleigh bicycles and Brough Superior motorbikes . Three thousand Brough Superior motorbikes were made in George Brough 's factory on Haydn Road. TE Lawrence
114-499: A Basford Beam Engine, one of a pair of engines built in 1858 by R. W. Hawthorn in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was installed at Basford Pumping Station to lift water 110 ft from the sandstone below to supply fresh water to the City of Nottingham. The engine was replaced in 1965 and was removed to the purpose-built Steam Gallery where it was first fired in 1975. Also in this building today are
152-399: A central block dominated by a hall three storeys high, with a stone screen at one end and galleries at either end, with the "Prospect Room" above that. From this there are extensive views of the park and surrounding country. There are towers at each corner, projecting out from this top floor. At each corner of the house is a square pavilion of three storeys, with decorative features rising above
190-517: A daily bath. The Willoughbys were noted for the number of explorers they produced, most famously Sir Hugh Willoughby who died in the Arctic in 1554 attempting a North East passage to Cathay . Willoughby's Land is named after him. In 1881, the house was still owned by the head of the Willoughby family, Digby Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton , but by then it was "too near the smoke and busy activity of
228-596: A gearbox (but no clutch) to provide a low drive ratio for climbing steep hills with heavy loads. At least one was preserved, as part of the Tom Varley collection. Production of ploughing engines ceased in 1935. The last Fowler steam driven vehicle was a steam roller produced in 1937. The main products produced by Fowler during the 1930s were their range of tracked tractors, the FD2, FD3 and FD4, powered by Fowler-Sanders diesel engines of 2, 3, and 4 cylinders. They also produced
266-516: A hunting accident. After his death, John Fowler & Co., was then continued by Robert Fowler and Robert Eddison. In 1886 the limited company of John Fowler & Co., (Leeds) Ltd., was formed. It merged with Marshall, Sons & Co. , Ltd., of Gainsborough in 1947 to form Marshall-Fowler Ltd. Although not well known for them, Fowler also built a small number (117 has been claimed) of steam wagons . These were vertical-boilered, with an unusual single-crank cross-compound vee-twin engine. They featured
304-547: A large manufacturing town... now only removed from the borough by a narrow slip of country", so that the previous head of the family, Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton , had begun to let the house to tenants and in 1881 it was vacant. The hall was bought by Nottingham Council in 1925. Estate and personal papers of the Willoughby family were used to create the Middleton collection at the department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham . They include
342-498: A number of tractors to be found in the tractor yard and these can sometimes be seen working during steaming days. The tractor collection comprises a Standard Fordson and a Field Marshall Series 2 . Outside the engine-house is a yard which is home to a number of barn engines, used previously to drive items like pumps and agricultural machinery. There are examples from manufacturers such as Wolseley. The barn engines are usually seen operating at steaming days. The Steam Gallery contains
380-471: A small but prominent hill in Wollaton Park , Nottingham , England. The house is now Nottingham Natural History Museum , with Nottingham Industrial Museum in the outbuildings. The surrounding parkland has a herd of deer, and is regularly used for large-scale outdoor events such as rock concerts, sporting events and festivals. Wollaton Hall was built between 1580 and 1588 for Sir Francis Willoughby and
418-465: A variety of pumps and engines, many of which were removed from local companies; for example E. Reader & Sons of Phoenix Engine Works, Cremorne Street, Nottingham (Makers of high-speed stationary steam engines). At the bottom end of the gallery stand two ploughing engines. These have consecutive registration numbers and were the last two production engines to come out of Fowlers Leeds Foundry . Owned by Nottingham City Council, they were used for ploughing
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#1732855778295456-534: A £91,000 government grant, and run by volunteers. The museum contains a display of local textiles machinery, transport, telecommunications, mining and engineering technology. There is a display of cycles, motorcycles, and motor cars. There are examples of significant lace-making machinery. It also houses an operational beam engine , from the Basford, Nottingham pumping station. Nottingham , Tiggua Cobaucc ─ Place of Caves, Snotengaham ─ "the homestead of Snot's people"
494-576: Is a classic prodigy house , "the architectural sensation of its age", though its builder was not a leading courtier and its construction stretched the resources he mainly obtained from coalmining ; the original family home was at the bottom of the hill. Though much re-modelled inside, the "startlingly bold" exterior remains largely intact. On 21 June 1603, Willoughby's son Sir Percival Willoughby hosted Anne of Denmark and her children Prince Henry and Princess Elizabeth at Wollaton. Charles, later Charles I , came in 1604. The building consists of
532-514: Is believed to be designed by the Elizabethan architect, Robert Smythson , who had by then completed Longleat , and was to go on to design Hardwick Hall . The general plan of Wollaton is comparable to these, and was widely adopted for other houses, but the exuberant decoration of Wollaton is distinctive, and it is possible that Willoughby played some part in creating it. The style is an advanced Elizabethan with early Jacobean elements. Wollaton
570-590: The Battle of Bosworth until the English Civil War . The castle fell into disuse and was dismantled in 1651. With the castle came all the supporting industries and commerce associated with a city. The museum divides the displays relating to five areas: Textiles, Transport, Communications, Mining and Steam. Two key inventions originating from Nottinghamshire gave rise to the local textile industry: The galleries at Nottingham Industrial Museum feature stocking frames ,
608-637: The Nottingham Mechanics' Institution ; it is now owned by the Nottingham City Council . In 2017 the museum hosted a tour of dinosaur skeletons titled Dinosaurs of China, Ground Shakers to Feathered Flyers . The exhibition was attended by over 125,000 people. From July 2021 to August 2022, the Nottingham Natural History Museum is featuring the world's first exhibit of Titus , a "real" Tyrannosaurus rex fossil which
646-551: The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens . The Camellia House is a listed building in its own right, as are many other buildings and structures, including a doric temple and Ha-Ha . In 1855, Joseph Paxton designed Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire , which borrows many features from Wollaton. Both properties have been used as film locations for Christopher Nolan 's Batman trilogy of films, featuring as Wayne Manor –
684-655: The Track Marshall tractor which was a tracked version of the Field Marshall . British Railways Engineering Department locomotives ED1 to ED7 were built by Fowler John Fowler was an agricultural engineer and inventor who was born in Wiltshire in 1826. He worked on the mechanisation of agriculture and was based in Leeds . He is credited with the invention of steam-driven ploughing engines. He died 4 December 1864, following
722-527: The Wollaton Antiphonal and the single manuscript holding the 13th-century post-Arthurian romance Le Roman de Silence . Nottingham Council opened the hall as a museum in 1926. In 2005 it was closed for a two-year refurbishment and re-opened in April 2007. The prospect room at the top of the house, and the kitchens in the basement, were opened up for the public to visit, though this must be done on one of
760-551: The 1920s, and tap their own Morse code message on a telegraph system In the yard is a coal truck from Clifton Colliery from the days when this mine was providing most of the coal for the nearby Wilford Power Station which was situated on the site of what is now the Riverside Retail Park. Nearby is situated a restored living van. These were towed behind steam engines and steam rollers and provided accommodation for labourers whilst working on farms or road works. There are usually
798-535: The Chemist , Players Cigarettes and Stanton Ironworks . In one of the museum's yards is a carved stone crest from Nottingham's first railway station, opened by the Midland Counties Railway in 1839. 52°56′53″N 1°12′44″W / 52.948110°N 1.212220°W / 52.948110; -1.212220 Wollaton Hall Wollaton Hall is an Elizabethan country house of the 1580s standing on
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#1732855778295836-576: The Fowler Gyrotiller from 1927 - this was a large tracked vehicle 34 foot long and 10 ft 6in wide powered initially by a 225 hp Ricardo petrol engine, later by a 170 hp MAN diesel. It was claimed it could convert virgin territory to seed-bed in one pass and at a rate of an acre per hour. Later versions of the gyrotiller were produced as attachments to the standard Fowler diesel crawler range with Fowler-Sanders engines of 30, 40 and 80 hp. A total of 88 gyrotillers were produced. During
874-609: The Second World War, the Hunslet factory also produced Matilda , Cromwell , and Centaur tanks for the Army. Track castings were made at a Ministry of Supply factory built in 1943 at Sprotbrough, and after the war Fowler acquired this highly mechanised foundry. In 1947 Fowler came under the ownership of Marshall, Sons & Co. (themselves owned by Thomas W. Ward Ltd). The two companies produced agricultural tractors with Fowler focussing on
912-558: The design is in fact derived from Nikolaus de Lyra's reconstruction, and Josephus 's description, of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, with a more direct inspiration being the mid-16th century Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, which Smythson knew. The buildings expert James D. Wenn has identified number of meanings embedded in the architecture associated with the Bible , classical antiquity , Plato and
950-460: The escorted tours. The latter can be booked on the day, lasts about an hour, and a small charge is made. In 2011, key scenes from the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises were filmed outside Wollaton Hall. The Hall was featured as Wayne Manor . The Hall is five miles north of Gotham, Nottinghamshire , through which Gotham City indirectly got its name. Wollaton Hall Park is Grade II* listed on
988-603: The geometry of the rhombic dodecahedron . These codes are also present in the older Soulton Hall , house of the Geneva Bible publisher Sir Rowland Hill , from which it has been argued influence was taken in the design scheme of Wollaton. The building is of Ancaster stone from Lincolnshire , and is said to have been paid for with coal from the Wollaton pits owned by Willoughby; the labourers were also paid this way. Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos recorded in 1702 that
1026-423: The great halls at Theobalds and Longleat were similar. The gallery of the main hall contains Nottinghamshire's oldest pipe organ , thought to date from the end of the 17th century, possibly by the builder Gerard Smith. It is still blown by hand. Beneath the hall are many cellars and passages, and a well and associated reservoir tank, in which some accounts report that an admiral of the Willoughby family took
1064-547: The latter in Batman Begins and Wollaton Hall itself in The Dark Knight Rises . Since Wollaton Hall opened to the public in 1926, it has been home to the city's natural history museum. On display are some of the items from the three quarters of a million specimens that make up its zoology , geology , and botany collections. These are housed in six main galleries: The Museum started life as an interest group at
1102-410: The master masons, and some of the statuary, were brought from Italy. The decorative gondola mooring rings carved in stone on the exterior walls offer some evidence of this, as do other architectural features. There are also obvious French and Dutch influences. The exterior and hall have extensive and busy carved decoration, featuring strapwork and a profusion of decorative forms. The window tracery of
1140-453: The roof line. Much of the basement storey is cut from the rock the house sits on. The floor plan has been said to derive from Serlio 's drawing (in Book III of his Five Books of Architecture ) of Giuliano da Majano 's Villa Poggio Reale near Naples of the late 15th century, with elevations derived from Hans Vredeman de Vries . The architectural historian Mark Girouard has suggested that
1178-420: The steam hall along with a working model of a Robey stationary engine. In a separate room, there is a very large stationary mill engine that was previously housed in a Nottinghamshire pub before being rescued by the museum. Behind the mill engine lies a 00 gauge railway display. Alongside the communications exhibits are clocks and printing machines. There are also items from prominent local companies such as Boots
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1216-466: The tracked versions, and Marshall on the wheeled versions. Although Fowler operated as a subsidiary of Marshall until at least 1966 the companies were eventually merged and the exhibits at the 1970 Smithfield show (three new Track Marshall tractors) are attributed to Marshall-Fowler Limited, John Fowler Works, Leeds. Production at the Hunslet factory finally ceased in early 1974, by which time production of both tracked and wheeled tractors had been moved to
1254-500: The treated sewage into the land at a large dairy farm at Stoke Bardolph. One of these engines is operational and is used at the steam up events. Next to the ploughing engines is a J. T. Marshall Portable steam engine , built at the Nottingham Engineering Works, Sandiacre, in 1886. It has been restored to full working order and can be seen operating at the steam up events. An operational model railway can also be seen in
1292-458: The upper floors in the central block and the general busyness of the decoration look back to the Middle Ages, and have been described as "fantasy-Gothic". The house was unused for about four decades before 1687, following a fire in 1642, and then re-occupied and given the first of several campaigns of re-modelling of the interiors. Paintings on the ceilings of the two main staircases and round
1330-469: The walls of one are attributed to Sir James Thornhill and perhaps also Louis Laguerre , carried out around 1700. Re-modelling was carried out by Wyatville in 1801 and continued intermittently until the 1830s. The hall remains essentially in its original Elizabethan state, with a "fake hammerbeam " wood ceiling of the 1580s, in fact supported by horizontal beams above, but given large and un-needed hammerbeams for decoration. The slightly earlier roofs of
1368-453: Was an enthusiast and was killed riding one of the eight he owned. The galleries display two 17th-century Baskerville coaches of dubious origin, Thomas Humber 's own bicycle, a Brough Superior car, and a unique Celer car. Exhibits show how Nottingham changed the communications industry, and how the communications industry changed the daily lives of Nottingham people. Visitors can see and hear restored vintage radios and gramophones dating back to
1406-537: Was discovered in Montana, in the United States, in 2014. John Fowler %26 Co. 53°47′11″N 1°32′16″W / 53.7864905°N 1.5378145°W / 53.7864905; -1.5378145 John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet , Leeds , West Yorkshire , England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment. Fowler also produced
1444-636: Was settled by the Vikings in 867 and by the Normans in 1086. They had established a castle there in 1067, which was fortified in stone 1120. Within the county, the cloth was manufactured and dyed, and coal was taken from outcrops near the Derbyshire border. Alabaster was also an important mineral. The city became the most important centre in the East Midlands, being fought over in all the internecine royal squabbles from
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