Educational resources: Industrial
Discovering Industrial Sites in the Lake District

This is a resource for Key Stage 3 pupils. The resource was developed after consultation with History co-ordinators at Cumbria’s secondary schools.
- Introduction and curriculum links (PDF)
- How to use, maps and background information (PDF)
- Find out more section pages 10 - 11 (PDF)
Howk Bobbin Mill Case Study
- Howk Bobbin Mill Case Study including brief history, glossary and Day in the Life of a Worker (PDF)
- Howk Bobbin Mill Ordnance Survey map - the Howk 1863 (PDF)
- Howk Bobbin Mill Ordnance Survey map - Caldbeck and the Howk 1900 (PDF)
- Howk Bobbin Mill Ordnance Survey map - the Howk 1900 (PDF)
- Howk Bobbin Mill Ordnance Survey map - Caldbeck and the Howk 2007 (PDF)
- Photography of workers at Howk Bobbin Mill around 1900 (PDF)
- Photograph of Howk Bobbin Mill and Cald Beck today (PDF)
- Photograph of Howk Gorge today (PDF)
- Photograph of Howk Bobbin Mill interior today (PDF)
- Photograph of Howk Bobbin Mill site today (PDF)
- Photograph of Howk Bobbin Mill site today from above (PDF)
- Photograph of Howk Bobbin Mill stairs today (PDF)
Leven Valley Case Study
- Leven Valley Case Study includes Glossary and fact boxes (PDF)
- Ordnance Survey map of Site of Ultramarine Works in 1848 (PDF)
- Ordnance Survey map of Low Wood Gunpowder Works in 1848 (PDF)
- Ordnance Survey map of Stott Park Bobbin Mill in 1848 (PDF)
- Ordnance Survey map of Leven Valley in 2007 (PDF)
- Photograph of the Leven Valley in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of Ultramarine Works in 1977 (PDF)
- Photograph of Ultramarine Works in 1980s (PDF)
- Photograph of Ultramarine Works in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of Backbarrow Ironworks pre-1920 (PDF)
- Photograph of Backbarrow workers houses in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of Low Wood Gunpowder Works in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of Low Wood saltpetre refinery in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of bobbins and machinery (PDF)
- Photograph of Haverthwaite railway station in 2008 (PDF)
Greenside Lead Mine
- Greenside Mine Case Study including glossery and a Day in the Life of in 1863 (PDF)
- Ordnance Survey map of Greenside in 1858 (PDF)
- Ordnance Survey map of Greenside in 2007 (PDF)
- Photograph of Greenside smelting mill buildings in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of Swart Beck in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of Greenside processing area in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of workers cottages in 2008 (PDF)
- Photograph of workers at Greenside around 1900 (PDF)
- Photograph of miners at Greenside in 1903 (PDF)
- Another photograph of workers at Greenside around 1900 (PDF)

Created with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund

