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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

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'''Grace’s Guide is an on-line encyclopaedia for British Industrial History and a registered charity
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'''Financial Support


'''Your contributions''' would enable us to:
It costs more than '''£50 per day''' (every day of the year) to operate Grace's Guide. This covers the cost of servers, internet bandwidth, administration and a member of staff to scan old books and documents. In addition we rely upon a number of very willing volunteers who freely contribute their time and expertise.
* Keep Grace's Guide free to use
* Employ our small team of key staff
* Assist with research
* Acquire documents and books
* Update our software
* Pay for the servers and data storage
* Handle worldwide inquiries


As a small team of volunteers and office staff sharing the same interest of preserving our industrial past, we rely more and more on the support of others. Our aim is to publish as much information about this industrial past as we are able to find. This information is then freely available for educational and research purposes worldwide.
'''Your donation''' will enable us to continue this work and increase the amount of information published. We are a registered charity so every penny is spent on the project.


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Our aim is to publish as much information about this industrial past as we are able to find. This information is then available for educational and research purposes worldwide.
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'''Material Support


'''Researchers:''' We are always keen to acquire new researchers and writers with specialist knowledge of industrial subjects who can freely contribute to the project.
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'''Memories:''' We encourage you to add memories of working for these companies. We believe it is important to preserve living memories of these important industrial and engineering organisations.
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'''Publications:''' We seek early magazines, books and other publications that we can use for this project.  We have facilities to safely store all items received.
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'''Photographs:''' We need early photographs and modern day images of landmarks, companies, machinery that can be used in the project.
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<h4>What we do, in a nutshell.</h4>


'''Endorsements:''' We would appreciate your leaving feedback about the pages you have visited.  
We're a small team of volunteers and office staff sharing the same passion - to preserve our industrial past.  


'''Contact us:''' Use the [[Contact_Us|Contact Us]] form or email 'editor' at GracesGuide.co.uk''' if you can help with any of these.
<h4>What makes us different?</h4>
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We're online based, and free to use for everybody. Anybody can access and use the material we publish and we want to keep it that way.
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We're proud to be a not-for-profit project with a sole purpose to preserve information that without digitisation, may be lost in time without a trace.
 
Many digitised texts, engravings and photographs you find on Grace's Guide are difficult or near impossible to access or source anywhere else. We don't only publish details on the popular pioneers, leading merchandise and famous firms, but salvage rare and forgotten books and publications, living memories and academic research.
 
<h4>If I donate, where does my money go?</h4>
 
Money you donate will pay for staff salaries, technology and up-keep of our library and publication archives. The charity employs a handful of people in the office working with specialist volunteers across the country. We work hard to write, edit and maintain the up-keep of the website for all to use without restriction. Your support will also contribute to the technical and digital software we use to preserve the information we collect.
 
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