Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,611 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Museum of Industry, Ghent

From Graces Guide
Large model of a Woolf-type beam engine, c.1840. Maker unkown

Industriemuseum/Musée de l’Industrie, Minnemeers 10, Gent/Ghent, Belgium

This industrial museum, housed in a former cotton mill, is particularly notable for its excellent displays relating to printing and textile production, with numerous machines on display.

It is located approximately 15-minutes walk from Gent-Dampoort railway station. It is further away from the Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station, but is readily reached from their by tram or bus.

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