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Woollaton Hall and Park Nottingham"The Yard" industrial museumAdjacent to the main hall, this contains a fine collection of artefacts from Nottingham's industrial past. It is owned by the council which probably explains the large number of staff wandering about. But they are not doing much to look after the exhibits. Apart from the steam engines, which are looked after by volunteers, most could do with a good dusting. Nor are they doing much to encourage visitors. The shop is half empty of stock and completely empty of customers. When I asked the man on the door of the natural history museum in the Hall next door where I could get a ticket, he pointed to another shop, empty apart from the ticket collector reading a magazine, and said: "There's not much to see you know!" I guess the council's priority is not paying customers but some government target for getting school kids to learn politically correct environmentalism. That probably explains why the first room is full of a tatty exhibition on environmental diversity and global warming. But perhaps I'm being harsh - the museum and Hall are being refurbished. I'll report back next year when it's complete. The main exhibits include railway and mining artefacts, lace making machines, Raleigh pedal cycles, Brough motorcycles, Ericsson telephones and the star of the show, the Basford beam engine. Lace machines
Ericsson phones
The whim or horse gin
This was first used to sink Langton colliery in Pinxton in 1841 and later moved to Pinxton Green where it was used up to 1950. The horse walked in circles attached to a beam which turned the large horizontal drum. The large drum held a number of turns of a double ended rope so that as one end was pulled up the other descended. The horse changed direction at after each pull. The ropes ran over the vertical left hand wheels (there would be two in a working gin) which lay over the pit shaft. Men, coal and water were all pulled up and down. Click here for the Basford beam engine, and here for maps of the railway network in Nottingham.
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