A hundred years ago today, Giant Staaken R plane R39 wreaked havoc in Brentford, dropping bombs on Whitestile Road and the Kew Bridge Waterworks – now the London Museum of Water & Steam. Here’s the story of that extraordinary night….
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One Year On: a message from the Director
Tuesday 15th October sees my one year anniversary as Director of the London Museum of Water & Steam. When I joined the Museum I knew I was in for an adventure, and I was not wrong. The year seems…
A look in our collections:
The Pipe Yard foreman
Written by Oliver Pearcey, Museum Trustee Among the research collections taken into the Museum archives is that of Geoff Saul, which I have been cataloguing in more detail following initial work by John Porter. Geoff clearly had a number…
1838 Maudslay Sons and Field – Engine Shutdown
1838 Maudslay Engine – Shutdown and Conservation. Introduction The study of industrial archaeology and the later preservation movement has its beginnings in the early 20th century with the formation of The Sheffield Trades Societies of 1918, set up specifically…
