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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Abbeydale Road South, Sheffield S7 2QW
Opening Times:
Open to the public Easter to October.
Open to pre booked school groups all year round.
Monday - Thursday 10.00am -4.00pm.
Sunday 11.00-4.45
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Description:
Abbeydale is a unique water powered scythe and steel making works. It is a grade 1 listed building and scheduled ancient monument and is of local and national importance a historic site. The houses, workshops, crucible steel furnaces, waterwheels, tilt hammer and machinery date back to the 18th and 19th centuries. Records suggest that manufacturing activity took place on site from at least 1714 and possibly as early as 1685. It was a major industrial complex for its time, bringing together a number of local trades on the same site. It was one of the largest water powered sites on Sheffield's River Sheaf. Work continued at Abbeydale Until 1933 when Tyzack Sons & Turner ceased production on the site. The Hamlet was temporarily re-opened during the Second World War to produce steel for the war effort.
You can watch a video of 'The Grinder's Song' being sung at the museum at www.myyorkshire.org
Contact Details:
Main number 0114 2367731 Education bookings 0114 2369064/ 0114 2010613
Learning Programmes:
Victorian Living History, Industrial development, Toy making, Forces and Materials, Health and Hygiene in the 1800s.
Specialisms:
History, Science and Design, Technology, Natural Science.
