MODERN AND INDUSTRIAL

The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries utterly transformed England, its landscape and its people. Scientific theories overturned long-held assumptions, globe-straddling empires rose and fell, factory towns flourished and technological innovation unleashed humanity’s potential for creativity and destruction like never before.

Many of our sites shine a light on the stories from this era, including Stott Park Bobbin Mill, a clattering, pulsating and fully operational Victorian factory on the wooded banks of Lake Windermere; Eltham Palace an impossibly sleek 1930s art deco mansion grafted onto a medieval ruin; nestled within 19 acres of Greenwich, London; the metalworking treasure trove of J.W. Evans Silver Factory in Birmingham’s famous Jewellery Quarter; the Great Yarmouth Row Houses , with delightful period domestic details; the signalling station, atmospheric Wartime Tunnels and underground hospital at Dover Castle and the chilling time capsule that is the York Cold War Bunker, in service up until the 1990s.

Past productions

Wonka, 2023 at Eltham Palace

Horrible Histories, 2022 at Eltham Palace

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, 2019/20 at Tilbury Fort

Wonder Woman, 2017 at Tilbury Fort

Taboo, 2016-17 at Tilbury Fort

The Crown, 2016 at Eltham Palace

Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2015 at Dover Castle’s War Tunnels