Building the Industrial Revolution. Industrial architecture of the East Midlands. A film for European Architectural Heritage Year - ACE050.4

Lace-making frame-knitting machinery; engravings of nineteenth century fashions; completed fabrics. Buildings in Nottingham’s Lace Market area, including the Adams warehouse, designed by Thomas Hine (1850). Portrait of Thomas Adams, Details of wrought iron interior decoration. Decorative features of Nottingham’s Papplewick Pumping Station (1884), part of the first mains water system in England. The pumping machinery (James Watt). Factory buildings, including the PEX hosiery works and the Frisby Jarvis building in Leicester and a shoe factory in Kettering. A lace factory, Nottingham, a metal frame building with a large percentage of window space; a twentieth century building with its curtain walled exterior almost entirely glass.