Industrial Heritage Education 

The education project focuses on aspects of our industrial past that are worth preserving for our future.
Schools across the east of England have been studying our common industrial heritage.

This includes:

• working people, their memories
  and their values.
• discoveries and inventions
  new technologies
• new attitudes towards the
  individual in society
• origins of the consumer society
  

But more than any of these it’s the places where people worked, acquired new skills, and laid the foundation for our own world.

The industrial heritage of the east of England is important. It demonstrates our past inventiveness. The Industrial
Revolution began in the UnitedKingdom and the effects were far ranging. It affected every aspect of working lives in the region and brought permanent change. From water mills to Victorian factories, the heritage of working
lives is all around us – just waiting to be discovered. Some of the region’s schools are doing just that.
Students are surprised and delighted to find out about important people and industries on their doorsteps.

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