Industries of Cumbria - Contents
(Page created  10/06/10)

• Welcome

  • Cumbria Industrial History Society

    • Publications

    • Membership Form

    • Programme

• Cumbria - An Industrial History

• A to Z of Industries

  • Aviation

    • Walney Airfield

  • Barytes

    • Force Crag Mill

    • Minor Mineral Sites

  • Brick Making

    • Heversham Brickworks

  • Canals

    • Ulverston Canal

  • Chemicals

    • Marchon Works, Whitehaven

    • Backbarrow Blue

    • The Devil's Porridge - cordite at HM Factory, Gretna

  • Coal

    • Tindale Fell

    • Coke in West Cumberland

  • Copper

    • Spothow Gill Copper Mine, Eskdale

    • Copper Sites

  • Corn Mills

    • Natland Mill Beck Mill

  • Cotton

    • Langthwaite Cotton Mill

  • Electricity

  • Footwear

    • K Shoes

  • Gas

    • Cumbria - the early years

    • Cumbria - the later years

  • Gunpowder

    • Low Wood Gunpowder Works

  • Gypsum

  • Iron and Steel

    • List of smelt sites

    • Iron making sites list

    • Blast furnaces list

    • Iron and steel production figures

  • Iron Mining

    • The Mines of Eskdale

  • Lead and zinc

    • Tindale Zinc Smelter

  • Lime Kilns

    • Kendal Fell

    • List of Cumbrian limekilns

  • Limestone Quarrying

    • Sandside Quarry

  • Linen

    • Catherine Street Mill, Whitehaven

  • Paper

    • Papergraph timeline

    • James Cropper PLC, Burneside

  • Ports and Harbours

  • Potash

  • Pottery

    • Wetheriggs Pottery

  • Quarrying

  • Railways

    • Rails to Carlisle

    • Rowrah and Kelton Fell (Mineral) Railway

  • Roads

    • Heavy Transport in Cumbria before 1800

    • Road Gates

    • Kendal Carriers

  • Salt

  • Shipbuilding

  • Slate

    • Wrengill Quarry

  • Tanning

    • Rusland Tannery

  • Tile Making

    • Reake Wood Tile Kiln

  • Wad

  • Water

  • Wolfram

  • Woodland Industries

    • Work in the Woods, 1715

  • Wool

    • Goodacres Carpets