The Industrial Revolutionaries is a display at the Harris Museum in Preston. \u00a0The revolutionaries are the people who made an\u00a0impact in Preston and include cotton magnates and reformers, mill workers and inventors. \u00a0The display was funded by a number of organisations to make that key part of Preston\u2019s history come alive for locals and tourists.\u00a0 This is achieved to some degree although if you already have a decent knowledge of local history it might not be deep enough whereas to many it will be just right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Entering the museum it isn\u2019t obvious where the display is if you come in when the monitor is showing something else. It\u2019s on the third floor.<\/p>\n
The information is in a modern well presented display made of a number of islands in subdued light.\u00a0The story is formed around 7 people in different segments of society which can still be recognised to this day in the UK wrapped in 200 years of new legislation while the changes from rural to urban industrial can be seen today in the development of China.\u00a0 As a side issue, sort of worrying about where we are heading, we need some new inventors in the north west.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For me the most interesting part was the 100 year old film of the raw cotton being processed into material in the Yard Mill.\u00a0 Looking at the workers, their reactions to the camera and thinking they were walking round Preston over a 100 years ago sparked curiosity. \u00a0Ladies in shawls, men in flat caps or bowlers.\u00a0 We see where the flat cap worker image comes from in the north, whereas in the south it often represents the wealthy country gentleman.\u00a0 The story of the workhouse and prison reform was interesting as well.\u00a0 They\u2019re all interesting and even though it might not appear too deep there is enough, as it would be a good test to name the main characters on leaving. I’d fail.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It would be good if this could be made into a permanent exhibition coupled with updating the History of Preston exhibition.\u00a0 Having been \u2018Stuarted\u2019 which is\u00a0 a term used for those intercepted and spoken to\u00a0by the enthusiastic and knowledgeable museum worker Stuart, it appears that to do that will cost a lot of money and probably at this time the cash will be difficult to find.\u00a0 If I win the Euro Millions maybe. Been to see this twice now and overall it\u2019s definitely worth a visit. On until 6th<\/sup> November 2010.\u00a0 Website;\u00a0 http:\/\/www.revolutionaries.org.uk\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Industrial Revolutionaries is a display at the Harris Museum in Preston. \u00a0The revolutionaries are the people who made an\u00a0impact in Preston and include cotton magnates and reformers, mill workers and inventors. \u00a0The display was funded by a number of organisations to make that key part of Preston\u2019s history come alive for locals and tourists.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Industrial Revolutionaries in Preston”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10,4,32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton","category-history","category-madeinpreston","category-political","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPtnz-jR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}