• 1999
  • 30m
Industrial Age

Summary Watch as Fred takes you to key factories and structures that spearheaded the industrial revolution and shows us how the machines actually worked. View more details

  • 1999
  • 30m

Industrial Age

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Fred Dibnah

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 17, 1999

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary Watch as Fred takes you to key factories and structures that spearheaded the industrial revolution and shows us how the machines actually worked. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 17, 1999

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Feb 17, 1999
Wind, Water & Steam
Episode 2 • Feb 24, 1999
Mills and Factories
Fred Dibnah traces Britain's textile industry, from South Lanarkshire to Burnley. Ex-weavers describe life in the mills and a group of volunteers explain why they have spent 30 years saving mill engines from the scrapyard.
Episode 3 • Mar 03, 1999
Iron and Steel
Episode 4 • Mar 10, 1999
Mining
Fred Dibnah explores how tin, slate, lead and coal were extracted from the ground, visiting a winding engine at a Cornish tin mine, a pit shaft in South Wales and a coal face in west Yorkshire.
Episode 5 • Mar 17, 1999
Railways
Fred Dibnah evokes nostalgia for steam locomotives as he visits museum collections in York and Darlington, travels on a replica of Rocket, and rides the footplate of a 1950's passenger train as it speeds through the countryside.
Episode 6 • Mar 24, 1999
Ships and Shipbuilding
Fred Dibnah examines the skill of the shipbuilders and engineers who turned Britain into a great manufacturing nation. He visits SS Great Britain in Bristol, the Windermere Steamboat Museum and the Kew Bridge Steam Museum.
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