Industrialists and Inventors Exhibition
at Portland Basin Museum 2022

Exhibition September 2022

The theme for Heritage Open Days 2022 is Industrialists and Inventors and to this end Janet Warre has sent me pdf copies of the nine boards which make up the exhibition. Some fascinating inventions and inventors came form Tameside. Click on each link yo see each display board

Albert E Richardson and the first Teasmade

The Attaboy Hat - The Denton Hat Works

Austin Hopkinson - Local MP and Inductrialist

Colin Needham - founder of the Internet Movie Database IMDb

Frank Hampson - Creator of Dan Dare

Henry Christy - Turkish/Terry towelling Manufacturer

Lawrence Earnshaw - Inventor of the Astronomical clock

Rev N Driver- Designed the Tibetan Typewriter

Thomas Earnshaw - Inventor of the Marine Chronometer