a tour of openairmuseums in Scandinavia and he took inspiration that lasted for the rest of his life from Skansen and other museums that he saw. In 1958 he became curator of the Bowes Museum at Barnard [...] determined to follow a career in museums. He studied science at the University of Sheffield, after which he was employed for a time in a coke works before obtaining a job at the museum at Wakefield. In 1952 he [...] available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson was appointed to direct the museum in 1970. The museum opened the following year and its successes in the years that followed, when it was subject
material. With little knowledge of the iron industry, he tried an original idea of blowing air through molten iron in an open crucible – his ‘converter’. It produced a violent reaction as carbon and silicon in [...] who added ‘spiegeleisen’ to stop over-oxidation, and Göran Göransson in Sweden, who improved the air flow in the converters. In 1858, Bessemer opened his own steelworks in Sheffield. Other companies took
the former Minister of Finance, the Marquis of Pindal. He began to look for a suitable location to open an ironworks, with advice from the military engineer Francisco Antonio Elorza. Asturias had a rich [...] continues in the company Duro Felguera SA. Many buildings survive and some are included in the Asturian Museum of the Steel Industry.
Home Safety Committee in Britain, and in 1936 went to the United States where she saw the Edison Museum and power stations built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and met Henry Ford (1863-1947). She was [...] the heavens. It should not be merely supplied but lavished, that men may use it at their wish as the air they breathe’.
Artur Hazelius founded the openairmuseum called Skansen at Stockholm, which has given its name to collections of buildings that have been scientifically removed from their original sites in many European [...] native country during which he developed a lively interest in folk lore. In 1872 he established a museum for Swedish ethnography, which has evolved into the present-day Nordiska Museet. After seeing the [...] by King Oskar II , he began to acquire buildings as well as artefacts, and in 1891 established a museum on Djurgarden, an island in Stockholm harbour that came to be called Skansen (i.e. fortifications)
Lothian Coal Co, which in the same year began to sink the Lady Victoria pit, now the Scottish Mining Museum. The colliery came to employ 1200 men and had a 91 year working life. The company controlled 5700 [...] railway was opened in 1889. He encouraged the use of new technology in mines, particularly of compressed air and electricity. He is buried in the cemetery at Cardiff and commemorated by a statue erected in 1906
European Museum of the Year award in 1987. His name is retained in the Kenneth Hudson award for the most unusual and daring achievement that challenges common perceptions of the role of museums in society [...] society which since 2010, award by European Museums Forum. He wrote more than 50 books many of them on topics related to industrial heritage or museums but some on entirely different subjects. Amongst the [...] works, both written with Ann Nicholls, T he Cambridge Guide to the Museums of Britain and Ireland (1987) and The Cambridge Guide to the Museums of Europe (1991). He often showed impatience with the writings
the National Railway Museum and can be heard online at "Railwaystories". The Pegler family home the mid-eighteenth century Arncott House at Retford has housed the Bassetlaw Museum since 1986. [...] used a light aircraft to chase express trains along the East Coast Main Line. He joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, although ill health prevented him from serving as a pilot. Subsequently [...] railways and flying extended into promoting excursions for his workpeople at Retford to the Farnborough Air Show in Surrey in 1954 and 1955, hauled by historic locomotives, and in 1958 by a new main line diesel
