Nottingham Industrial Museum

[2] The Museum collection closed in 2009 after Nottingham City Council withdrew funding, but has since reopened at weekends and bank holidays, helped by a £91,000 government grant,[3][4] and run by volunteers.

Nottingham, Tiggua Cobaucc ─ Place of Caves, Snotengaham ─ "the homestead of Snot's people" was settled by the Vikings in 867 and by the Normans in 1086.

[5] The city became the most important centre in the East Midlands, being fought over in all the internecine royal squabbles from the Battle of Bosworth until the English Civil War.

[6] The museum divides the displays relating to five areas: Textiles, Transport, Communications, Mining and Steam.

Visitors can see and hear restored vintage radios and gramophones dating back to the 1920s, and tap their own Morse code message on a telegraph system [10] In the yard is a coal truck from Clifton Colliery from the days when this mine was providing most of the coal for the nearby Wilford Power Station which was situated on the site of what is now the Riverside Retail Park.

Outside the engine-house is a yard which is home to a number of barn engines, used previously to drive items like pumps and agricultural machinery.

Owned by Nottingham City Council, they were used for ploughing the treated sewage into the land at a large dairy farm at Stoke Bardolph.

In a separate room, there is a very large stationary mill engine that was previously housed in a Nottinghamshire pub before being rescued by the museum.

There are also items from prominent local companies such as Boots the Chemist, Players Cigarettes and Stanton Ironworks.