|
Darby Houses
The Darby Houses museum is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. It is based in the village of Coalbrookdale in the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England within a World Heritage Site, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The Darby Houses comprise the adjacent properties of Dale House and Rosehill, both of which were built for members of the Darby family in Darby Road, Coalbrookdale. Dale House Dale House was originally built in 1717 for Abraham Darby I and looks out over the Upper Furnace Pool whose outflow powered the blast furnace. His son Abraham Darby II married Abiah Darby and they had several children.Nancy Cox, ‘Darby , Abiah (1716–1794)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 25 September 2015/ref> Abraham and Abiah moved to their new house, Sunniside, in 1750. Dale House was enlarged by subsequent generations: in 1776 Abraham Darby III converted the attic into a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale House Distance
Dale or dales may refer to: Locations * Dale (landform), an open valley * Dale (place name element) Geography ;Australia *The Dales (Christmas Island), in the Indian Ocean ;Canada *Dale, Ontario ;Ethiopia *Dale (woreda), district ;Norway *Dale, Fjaler, the administrative centre of Fjaler municipality, Vestland county *Dale, Sel, a village in Sel municipality in Innlandet county * Dale, Vaksdal, the administrative centre of Vaksdal municipality, Vestland county * Dale, Vaksdal, the administrative bop on the head * Dale Church (Fjaler), a church in Fjaler municipality, Vestland county *Dale Church (Luster), a church in Luster municipality, Vestland county *Dale Church (Vaksdal), a church in Vaksdal municipality, Vestland county *Dale Church (also known as Norddal Church), a church in Fjord municipality, Møre og Romsdal county ;Poland *Dale, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland) ;Sweden *The Dales, English exonym for Dalarna province ;United Kingdom *Dale, Cumbria, a hamlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Darby II
Abraham Darby, in his lifetime called Abraham Darby the Younger, referred to for convenience as Abraham Darby II (12 May 1711 – 31 March 1763) was the second man of that name in an English Quaker family that played an important role in the early years of the Industrial Revolution. Life Darby was born in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire to Abraham and Mary (née Sergeant). He followed in his father's footsteps(Abraham Darby I) in the Darby foundry business in Coalbrookdale, producing cast iron cooking pots, kettles, and other goods. The Coalbrookdale Company also played an important role in using iron to replace the more expensive brass for cylinders for Thomas Newcomen's steam engines. He and his partners were responsible for a very important innovation in introducing the use of coke pig iron as the feedstock for finery forges. This formed a significant part of the output of Horsehay and Ketley Furnaces, which they built in the late 1750s. His father's successful use of coke pig i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historic House Museums In Shropshire
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Winteringham
Graham Winteringham (born 2 March 1923) is an English architect who was born in Louth, Lincolnshire. Winteringham's work has consisted of public buildings and the restoration of historic buildings. Early life He studied at Birmingham School of Architecture (which became part of Birmingham Polytechnic) after serving in the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm during World War II, having been called-up in 1942. Public buildings The 300-seat Crescent Theatre building was designed by Winteringham and built on Cumberland Street in Birmingham in 1964. Featuring a revolving auditorium/stage, the design was innovative. In 1972, Winteringham received a Royal Institute of British Architects Award for his design of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, one of the largest theatres of its type in Britain. Opened in 1971, by Princess Margaret, the 901-seat theatre forms the centerpiece of Centenary Square in central Birmingham. Building restoration Rosehill House, forming part of the Ironbridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ford (ironmaster)
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his novels featuring Frank Bascombe. Early in his career, Ford established himself as a master of the short story genre when his first collection '' Rock Springs'' was published to immediate acclaim in 1987. Ford's work has earned many honors and worldwide recognition. In the United States, he received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his novel '' Independence Day''. In Spain, he garnered their prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for 2016. In 2018, Ford received the Park Kyong-ni Prize, the primary international literary award of South Korea. Recently, his novel ''Wildlife'' was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name, and in 2023 Ford published ''Be Mine'', his fifth work of fiction chronicling the life of Frank Bascombe. Early life Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the only son of Parker Carrol and Edna Ford. Parker was a traveling salesman for Faultless Starch, a Kan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosehill House
The Darby Houses museum is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. It is based in the village of Coalbrookdale in the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England within a World Heritage Site, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The Darby Houses comprise the adjacent properties of Dale House and Rosehill, both of which were built for members of the Darby family in Darby Road, Coalbrookdale. Dale House Dale House was originally built in 1717 for Abraham Darby I and looks out over the Upper Furnace Pool whose outflow powered the blast furnace. His son Abraham Darby II married Abiah Darby and they had several children.Nancy Cox, ‘Darby , Abiah (1716–1794)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 25 September 2015/ref> Abraham and Abiah moved to their new house, Sunniside, in 1750. Dale House was enlarged by subsequent generations: in 1776 Abraham Darby III converted the attic into a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Darby III
Abraham Darby III (24 April 1750 – 1789) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third man of that name in several generations of an English Quaker family that played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution. Life Abraham Darby was born in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, in 1750, the eldest son of Abraham Darby the Younger (1711–1763) by his second wife, Abiah Maude, and educated at a school in Worcester kept by a Quaker named James Fell. At age thirteen, Darby inherited his father's shares in the family iron-making businesses in the Severn Valley, and in 1768, aged eighteen, he took over the management of the Coalbrookdale ironworks. He took various measures to improve the conditions of his work force. In times of food shortage he bought up farms to grow food for his workers, he built housing for them, and he offered higher wages than were paid in other local industries, including coal-mining and the potteries. He built the largest cast iron structure of his era: t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography
The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives. First series Hoping to emulate national biographical collections published elsewhere in Europe, such as the '' Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (1875), in 1882 the publisher George Smith (1824–1901), of Smith, Elder & Co., planned a universal dictionary that would include biographical entries on individuals from world history. He approached Leslie Stephen, then editor of the ''Cornhill Magazine'', owned by Smith, to become the editor. Stephen persuaded Smith that the work should focus only on subjects from the United Kingdom and its present and former colonies. An early working title was the ''Biographia Britannica'', the name of an earlier eightee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abiah Darby
Abiah Darby (born Abiah Maude; 1716–1794) was an English minister in the Quaker church based in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. She was also the wife of the iron industrialist Abraham Darby. Abiah kept a journal and she sent letters which recorded the Darby family's achievements. One of her letters has been used to identify the start of the Industrial Revolution. Life Abiah Maude was born in 1716 into a Quaker family headed by Samuel and Rachel (born Warren) Maude. By her teens she was moved to preach, but she took no action. She wanted to marry John Sinclair, but her widowed mother resisted the match until February 1734. Within three years, Abiah Sinclair was a widow with a daughter named Rachel. She rejected her sister's requests to rejoin society. Instead, she carried out her religious duties until 1745, when she met the Quaker widower Abraham Darby of Coalbrookdale. They married at St Patrick's Church, Preston Patrick, Preston Patrick on 9 March 1746. Her new husband was rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Darby I
Abraham Darby, in his later life called Abraham Darby the Elder, now sometimes known for convenience as Abraham Darby I (14 April 1677 – 5 May 1717, the first and best known of several men of that name), was an English ironmaster and foundryman. Born into an English Quaker family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution, Darby developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal. This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a raw material for the Industrial Revolution. Early life Abraham Darby was the son of John Darby, a yeoman farmer and locksmith by trade, and his wife Ann Baylies. He was born at Wren's Nest in Woodsetton, Staffordshire, now part of Dudley, West Midlands. He was descended from nobility; his great-grandmother Jane was an illegitimate child of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley. Abraham's great-grandmother was a sister of the whole blood to Dud Dudley, who claimed to have smelted i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ironbridge Gorge Museums
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is an industrial heritage organisation which runs ten museums and manages multiple historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site in Shropshire, England, widely considered as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The Gorge includes a number of settlements important to industrial history and with heritage assets, including Ironbridge, Coalport and Jackfield along the River Severn, and also Coalbrookdale and Broseley. The area was among the first sites in the United Kingdom to be declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986. Museums The ten museum sites run by the Trust, collectively known as The Ironbridge Gorge Museums are: # Blists Hill Victorian Town, including the Hay Inclined Plane # Broseley Pipeworks # Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron # Coalport China Museum # Tar Tunnel # Darby Houses # Enginuity # Iron Bridge and Tollhouse # Jackfield Tile Museum # Museum of the Gorge The Trust The Ironbridge Gorge Museum T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power and water power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the mechanized factory system. Output greatly increased, and a result was an unprecedented rise in population and in the rate of population growth. Textiles were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output and capital invested. The textile industry was also the first to use modern production methods. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, and many of the technological and architectural innovations were of British origin. By the mid-18th century, Britain was the world's leadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Historic House Museums In Shropshire")
