http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com Discover a passion for history.... Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:56:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/06ce16b40719ac1a56d006b26cd965cd?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/the-costume-project-ironbridge-gorge-museum-trust/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/the-costume-project-ironbridge-gorge-museum-trust/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:28:27 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4459 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/the-costume-project-ironbridge-gorge-museum-trust/feed/ 2 comestepbackintime ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Archery costumes, 1880s, made by The Costume Project team at Ironbridge for Education Workshops at the Fashion Museum, Bath. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Reproduction 2 of the Mantua Gown 1740s, made by The Costume Project at Ironbridge. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Costume (1900) made to be worn by members of the public at the Photographer's Studio at Blists Hill Victorian Farm. Made by The Costume Project at Ironbridge. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Costume (1900) made to be worn by members of the public at the Photographer's Studio at Blists Hill Victorian Farm. Made by The Costume Project at Ironbridge. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.1840s Quaker Lady try on costume at the Darby Houses ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. A Reproduction (1) Corset from the 1890s made by The Costume Project team. Notice the beautiful stitch detail on the corset. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Reinvention Corset at the National Museums Scotland ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. A 1720s Frock Coat try-on costume made by The Costume Project for Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Example of one of the staff costumes made by The Costume Project for Kew Palace. http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/hidden-killers-of-the-victorian-home/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/hidden-killers-of-the-victorian-home/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:28:47 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4422 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/hidden-killers-of-the-victorian-home/feed/ 1 comestepbackintime ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The Pharmacy at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. ©Come Step Back in Time. Tiny waists, a fashionable Victorian look. Exhibit from the Fashion Museum, Bath. ©Come Step Back in Time. Exhibit from the Fashion Museum, Bath. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The Pharmacy at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. ©Come Step Back in Time. Doctor's House and Surgery. Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. ©Come Step Back in Time. Interior of the Doctor's House and Surgery, no. 2 Furnace Bank. Rebuilt brick-by-brick, a majority of one Duke of Sutherland's cottage built on Wellington Road (no.15), Donnington, Telford. 1862. Opened on site 22nd October, 1986. ©Come Step Back in Time. Inside the Doctor's House and Surgery, Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. ©Come Step Back in Time. Inside the Doctor's House and Surgery, Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. ©Come Step Back in Time. Inside McClures General Draper and Outfitters, no. 3 Canal Street, Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. An original building from Stafford Place, Oakengates, Telford (exterior and shop front only). c.1880. Opened on site on 4th Apri, 2009. ©Come Step Back in Time. Grocery and Provisions Shop (A.F. Blakemore & Son), no. 7 High Street. An exact replica of Owen's Grocer's shop and warehouse, Market Street, Oakengates, Telford, Shropshire. c.1890. Many of the items on display in the shop are from Chester's Salopian Stores, Westbury, Shropshire. The shop opened on site on 14th July 2000. ©Come Step Back in Time. Interior of the Pharmacy at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/ironbridge-the-birthplace-of-industry/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/ironbridge-the-birthplace-of-industry/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:28:17 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4372 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/ironbridge-the-birthplace-of-industry/feed/ 0 comestepbackintime ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Iron Works at Coalbrookdale by Philip James De Loutherbourg (1740-1812) from an engraving by William Pickett. ©The Valley Hotel. The Valley Hotel, Ironbridge, Shropshire. The Upper Works, site of the Old Furnace, Coalbrookdale (Ironbridge site). In 1753, the Upper Works consisted of an office, blacksmith's shop, bridge house, three boring mills, a furnace, a loam house, air furnace, moulding house and tenement.©Come Step Back in Time The Upper Works, site of the Old Furnace, Coalbrookdale. Marks from the water wheel can still be seen in the stonework. The water wheel was last used in the 1920s to drive grinding wheels. These were used to clean-up or fettle castings and ensure a precision fit for the increasingly complex machinery that was being made here.©Come Step Back in Time Diagram of the old Furnace, Coalbrookdale. The Furnace went out of use in 1818 and the foundry buildings around it remained in use and even expanded to enclose the remains of the furnace.©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust The Tapping Arch, Upper Works, Coalbrookdale. The dates on the cast iron beam refer to Abraham Darby III's enlargement of the furnace in 1777, probably to increase capacity for the construction of the world's first Iron Bridge in the Gorge.©Come Step Back in Time Remains of Madeley Wood Company Blast Furnaces, Blists Hill, Ironbridge. Base of the first furnace, 1832; base of second and south engine house, 1840; base of third, 1844; north engine house c. 1873. The furnaces were blown out in 1912. ©Come Step Back in Time Madeley Wood Company Blast Furnaces, Blists Hill.©Come Step Back in Time ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. An extract from Abraham Darby I's original 1707 patent for casting iron bellied pots. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Coalbrookdale Company employees at the Upper Works c. 1901. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Dale House, the Darby family country seat which overlooked the ironworks. Construction of the house was begun by Darby I in 1715. Dale House is part of the Ironbridge site and is open to the public. Abraham Darby IV (1804-1878). He began work at Coalbrookdale in the late 1820s with his brother Alfred Darby I. Darby IV began to move away from Quakerism. The last Darby 1925 Alfred Darby II retired as Chairman of the Company which marked the end of the Darby connection with the works after more than seven generations. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Coalbrookdale Co Statues at the Kensington Olympia Exhibition, 1889. The Victorians couldn't get enough of cast iron products. They were everywhere. ©Come Step Back in Time. The Boy and Swan Fountain cast by the Coalbrookdale Company in 1851 for the Great Exhibition. The remains of the Old Furnaces at Upper Works can just be seen in the background. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron. The Museum contains a vast display of domestic and decorative ironworks. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. A close-up of the Deerhound Table on display at the Museum of Iron, one of the Ironbridge Gorge museums in Coalbrookdale. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Thomas Farnolls Pritchard. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The Iron Bridge by William Williams (1780). The painting was commissioned by Darby for ten guineas (£10.50). The painting was thought to be lost for over one hundred and fifty years until it appeared in 1992 when the Museum purchased it. It now hangs in the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron. ©Come Step Back in Time. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. View of the Iron Bridge over the River Severn. http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/captain-lawrence-oates-soldier-explorer-hero/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/captain-lawrence-oates-soldier-explorer-hero/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:47:34 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4307 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/captain-lawrence-oates-soldier-explorer-hero/feed/ 2 comestepbackintime DSCF6871 Lawrence's beloved mother. He declared that she was the only woman that he had ever loved. Lawrence never married. Uniform similar that worn by Lawrence during the Boer War in South Africa. On loan to Gilbert White's House and Garden from the The Inniskilling Dragoon Museum. Captain Oates's despatch case used during his military career. On loan to the museum from The Inniskilling Dragoons Museum. Exhibit in The Oates Gallery showing Ponting's photograph of the Winter Exhibit in The Oates Gallery showing replicas of Herbert Pontings glass-late negatives. Replica of the Terra Nova (scale 1/8 inch to 1 foot) made by Commander Rupert Head RN, 2011-2012. The Oates Gallery. Display panel in The Oates Gallery. The men needed five thousand five hundred calories each day and were only consuming four thousand four hundred and thirty with no vitamin C. The Oates Gallery. Sledge on display in The Oates Gallery. Fully-loaded a sledge needed 4 men to pull it. Some sledges were 10ft long (3m) others were 12ft long (3.65m) and could weigh 1,121lbs (51kg) when loaded with equipment and rations. Birdie Bowers wrote:'...I have never pulled so hard or so nearly crushed my inside into my backbone by the everlasting jerking on the canvas band round my unfortunate tummy.' The Oates Gallery. The Oates Gallery. Replica of the home-made tree made by Scott's team to celebrate Midwinter Day (22nd June, 1911). The Oates Gallery. Ponting's photograph of Scott's team making the Midwinter Day tree. Oates sits at the table on the left. The Oates Gallery. Exhibit showing contemporary polar-exploration clothing. The Oates Gallery. Rations used in modern-day polar-exploration. The Oates Gallery. http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/mr-watt-grumpy-man-of-metal-exhibition-by-jon-mills-at-enginuity-ironbridge-shropshire/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/mr-watt-grumpy-man-of-metal-exhibition-by-jon-mills-at-enginuity-ironbridge-shropshire/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:33:18 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4280 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/mr-watt-grumpy-man-of-metal-exhibition-by-jon-mills-at-enginuity-ironbridge-shropshire/feed/ 4 comestepbackintime ©Jon Mills. Mr Watt, Grumpy Man of Metal, Exhibition by artist Jon Mills at Enginuity, Ironbridge, Shropshire. ©Jon Mills ©Jon Mills ©Jon Mills ©Jon Mills ©Jon Mills ©Jon Mills http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/heath-robinson-exhibition-st-barbe-museum-art-gallery/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/heath-robinson-exhibition-st-barbe-museum-art-gallery/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:45:25 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4245 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/heath-robinson-exhibition-st-barbe-museum-art-gallery/feed/ 0 comestepbackintime © William Heath Robinson Trust. St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery. 'The Aeronaut' by Heath Robinson © William Heath Robinson Trust. St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery. Rough sketch for doubling Gloucester cheese by Heath Robinson.© William Heath Robinson Trust. St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery. German breaches of the Hague Conention - Huns using siphons of laughing gas to overcome our troops before an attack in close formation. Pen, ink, watercolour and bodycolour. Published in The Sketch, August 1915. © William Heath Robinson Trust. St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery. Arts & Crafts selling Exhibition featuring the work of regional artists. The Old School Gallery, St. Barbe Museum, Lymington. Michael Turner's Michael Turners Lion at St. Barbe Museum http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/charmed-life-the-solace-of-objects-exhibition-at-winchester-discovery-centre/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/charmed-life-the-solace-of-objects-exhibition-at-winchester-discovery-centre/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:15:50 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4182 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/charmed-life-the-solace-of-objects-exhibition-at-winchester-discovery-centre/feed/ 3 comestepbackintime Unstrung - wax on mirror back series, 2011.© Felicity Powell Conjuring coral - wax on mirror back series, 2011. © Felicity Powell Runaway tree - wax on mirror back series, 2009. © Felicity Powell Heart-shaped late medieval bronze heart found in the grounds of Hyde Abbey.©Winchester City Museums. Roman lead curse (4th century AD).©Winchester City Museums. Bees - wax on mirror back series, 2009. © Felicity Powell Tentacled - wax on mirror back series, 2006. © Felicity Powell Deep water - wax on mirror back series, 2009. © Felicity Powell http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/food-glorious-food-itv/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/food-glorious-food-itv/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:32:32 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4125 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/food-glorious-food-itv/feed/ 8 comestepbackintime sadfadsfsad scan0024 FGF http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/frank-oates-victorian-explorer-of-the-natural-world/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/frank-oates-victorian-explorer-of-the-natural-world/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:36:31 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=4066 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/frank-oates-victorian-explorer-of-the-natural-world/feed/ 0 comestepbackintime Top Row (L-R) - W. E. Oates, Mr Gray, Mr Buckley. Bottom Row (L-R), Thomas Bell (W.E. Oates's servant), Frank Oates with his favourite pointer, Rail. Frank Oates Book cover for 1881 publication Klipspringer ( Central American bird specimens collected by Frank Oates in 1871-2. By kind permission of The Oates Collection, Gilbert White's House and Garden, Selborne, Hampshire. Victoria Falls from a water-colour drawing by Frank Oates. From the a display in The Frank Oates Gallery, Gilbert White's House and Garden, Selborne, Hampshire. From a display at The Frank Oates Gallery, Gilbert White's House and Garden, Selborne, Hampshire. Dryiophis oatesii. From a display in The Frank Oates Gallery, GIlbert White's House and Garden, Selborne, Hampshire. Illustration by R. Mintern. Rail, Frank's favourite dog, guarding his master's grave. Display in The Frank Oates Gallery, Gilbert White's House and Garden, Selborne, Hampshire. http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/gilbert-white-the-parson-naturalist-of-selborne-hampshire/ http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/gilbert-white-the-parson-naturalist-of-selborne-hampshire/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:22:52 +0000 Come Step Back In Time http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/?p=3948 ]]> http://comestepbackintime.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/gilbert-white-the-parson-naturalist-of-selborne-hampshire/feed/ 0 comestepbackintime View of the gardens and back of The Wakes, Gilbert White's House, Selborne, Hampshire. Prof. Bell's library, on the ground floor of The Wakes. Prof. Thomas Bell (1792-1880) was a zoologist who much admired White's work. He retired, aged seventy, to Selborne and died at The Wakes in 1880. Prof. Bell himself published an edition of The Natural History of Selborne in 1877. The former library is now home to interative exhibits about Gilbert White's life and work. Gilbert White's original manuscript of The Natural History of Selborne (1789). By kind permission of Gilbert White's House and Garden. View from Gilbert's bedroom window of the garden. View from Gilbert's bedroom window of the gardens at The Wakes. The haha at the boundary ensures a seamless view of lawn and surrounding land. Garden at The Wakes. Book cabinet that houses Ronald's collection of editions of Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne. The Illustrated Natural History of Selborne (2004), published by Thames & Hudson with an introduction by Dr June E. Chatfield. 15. Editions of NHS in other languages The Natural History of Selborne, compiled and translated Izawa-Koichi and illustrated by Kuroda-Machiko (2008). Mary (Molly) White. By kind permission of Gilbert White's House and Garden. Gilbert's father, John White. By kind permission of Gilbert White's House and Garden. Gilbert's grandfather, also called Gilbert White. By kind permission of Gilbert White's House and Garden. Ronald as Gilbert White with Timothy the tortoise. Display in the Great Parlour at Gilbert White's House, showing a copy of The Natural History of Selborne and a model of Timothy the tortoise. Gilbert White's study at The Wakes. The desk shown may have been the original desk owned by Gilbert. 13. Bird exhibit 14. Bird exhibit 11. Gilbert White's Study 2. Blanchard balloon flight at Selborne Gilbert White's bedroom at The Wakes. Embroidered detail of the curtains around Gilbert's bed. 5. Detail of curtains in bedroom 6. Detail of curtains in bedroom 7. Detail of curtains in bedroom 12. Exhibit in Gilbert White's study