Long Shop Museum
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The Long Shop Museum is an industrial heritage museum in the town of Leiston in the English county of Suffolk.[1] The museum features the history of Richard Garrett & Sons who manufactured a wide range of industrial and agricultural machinery, steam engines, and electric vehicles. The museum also celebrates the social history of a rural community that grew to be central to the Industrial Revolution.
The Museum is housed in some of the remaining buildings of Garrett's Leiston Town Works. The centre-piece "Long Shop" was constructed in 1852 as the first purpose-built flow-line assembly workshop for the manufacture of portable steam engines. It consists of an open central area, and fitters' galleries on the level of the first floor.[2][3] The building is a Grade II* listed building.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Long Shop Museum Archived 27 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Suffolk Heritage Direct, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
- ^ Long Shop Museum Archived 1 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Discover the Industrious East. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ a b The Long Shop, Leiston, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
- ^ Leiston: Busy summer in store for new staff at Long Shop Museum, East Anglian Daily Times, 2013-07-13. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
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