Long Shop Museum
The Long Shop Museum is an industrial heritage museum in the town of Leiston in the English county of Suffolk. 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. The building is a Grade II* listed building.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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