The Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust (SIMT) is an independent

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trust based in

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, that runs the

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-owned Kelham Island,

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is an industrial museum in the south of the City of Sheffield, England. The museum forms part of a former steel-working site on the River Sheaf, with a history going back to at least the 13th century. It consists of ...

, and Shepherd Wheel

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. The trust was created from a partnership between the City Council,

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and the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire as ''Kelham Island Museum Ltd.'' in November 1994, and reconstituted as the ''Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust'' in 1998 when the City Council passed to them control of the recently closed Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.

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1998 establishments in England Culture in Sheffield *Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust Charities based in Sheffield Organizations established in 1998 {{UK-charity-stub

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