Museum of Bath at Work
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| Museum of Bath at Work | |
  Shown within Somerset
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| Established | 1978 |
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| Location | Bath, Somerset |
| Director | Stuart Burroughs |
| Website | Museum web site |
The Museum of Bath at Work is at Camden Works, Julian Road, in Bath, Somerset, England.
The museum was established in 1978 to record, store and display material from Bath's commercial and industrial heritage over the last 200 years. It started with a reconstruction of the shop, offices, workshops of Jonathan Burdett Bowler's Victorian engineering business, which is supported by a collection of approx. 250,000 documents of correspondence advertising material, accounts, business records, from 1872 to 1969. He also ran a fizzy drinks factory making such sumptuous concoctions as Orange Champagne, Hot Tom, Bath Punch and Cherry Ciderette.[1]
The museum also has a reconstruction of the Cabinet Making company Keevil & Son.
The importance of Bath Stone to the city is recognised with a full size model of a stone mine, and description of 160 million years of local geological history. Another collection is based around the Horstmann Companyies which produced cars and the Horstmann suspension system.[2] The museum has a 1914 Horstman Coupe.
[edit] References
- ^ Museum of Bath at Work. 24 hour museum. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.
- ^ Horstman History. Horstmann Company. Retrieved on 2007-10-28.
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