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• - Conserves and presents the history of the Cheshire salt industry. Includes visitor and facility information, publications, and a collection of historic photographs.
  
• - Museum of stationary steam engines and land drainage history of the Somerset Levels, at the county's oldest surviving pumping station. Includes details of location, opening times, exhibited engines and how to support their work.
  
• - The Shropshire site of the birth of the industrial revolution has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Visitor information and a virtual tour.
  
• - Hands on exhibition of computing technology from Colossus to the present day on the site where the first computers were used to break the enigma code, Bletchley Park
  
• - Preserved Victorian pumping station. Includes functional steam engines and historical engineering items.
  
• - Collection of giant pumping engines in a Victorian waterworks on the Thames, and the history of water supply. Description of the major exhibits and visitor information. London.
  
• - World War ll codebreaking centre and home of Colossus, the world’s first semi-programmable computer . Visitor information, news, events and the work of the trust. Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.
  
• - Open to the public for the first time in 300 years, summer only. Exhibitions on the history of explosives, wildlife and the restoration of a narrow gauge railway. Essex.
  
• - Overview and pictures of the museum dedicated to all forms of power, from steam to electric, housed in the Steam Pumping Station at Langford in Essex.
  
• - The history of British brewing. Largest brewing collection in Britain, including historic equipment, transportation vehicles, pub memorabilia and advertising materials. Staffordshire.
  
• - Time tunnel of life in the fishing industry, both at sea and ashore. Includes details, photos and contact information. Located in Northumberland.
  
• - A University of York collection of over 100 computers ranging from minis to supercomputers.
  
• - Society preserving and restoring the steam powered pumping station at Clay Mills, near Burton Upon Trent in Staffordshire. Archives, technical data, online tour and visitor information with dates for next steaming.
  
  

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