THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: An
introduction to the course with slides, photographs and readings
Afternoon
Tour of Manchester City Centre and sites with historical associations including
the world's first industrial canal and railway station
Tuesday
Full Day
Excursion to Ironbridge and
Coalbrookdale with guided tours of the Museum of Iron, the world's first iron
bridge cast in 1779 and the Blists Hill Open Air Museum
Wednesday
Morning
English language lesson 1: using texts
related to the Industrial Revolution: INVENTIONS
Afternoon
Free
Evening
Play reading and preparation for visit to
Quarry Bank Mill
Thursday
Morning
English language lesson 2:
using texts related to the Industrial Revolution: LIVING AND WORKING
Afternoon
Visit to Quarry Bank Cotton
Mill 1784 - a museum and working factory powered by water
Evening
Optional evening visit to Symphony
concert, play or musical
Friday
Morning
English language lesson 3: REFORMS
Afternoon
Excursion to the Gladstone Pottery
Museum, Stoke-on-Trent and the Wedgwood Visitor Centre
Evening
Play reading and party with host families
Saturday
Full Day
Excursion to the Lake
District. Visit includes the Dudden cast-iron foundry and tour of the Great
Langdale Valley
Moor
Cottage, Grange Lane, Didsbury, Manchester M20 6RW, England.
Revolution