River Tyne swing bridge won’t swing
This week a £1m scheme to save the 1876 River Tyne swing bridge ended in failure. The machine room, showing one of Armstrong's original three-cylinder oscillating hydraulic motors First used for road traffic on 15 June 1876 and opened for river traffic on 17 July 1876 the bridge,...
What the Remnants of Britain’s button industry teach us about the future of manufacturing
Many British towns and cities grew up around manufacturing. The north of England was once the production centre of the world during the industrial revolution. While manufacturing remained important to many cities until the 1970s, it has since been in prolonged decline. The government wants to reinvigorate the...