The Building

The Museum Building

Observe a section of the enormous icehouse protruding into the main building, which once held ice from the lake.

Notice the archways (now bricked up) through which layshafts from the windmill passed to run Champions machinery.

Study the many changes and alterations made to the building by successive companies and industries.

Step inside the huge 60ft tower, once a windmill for crushing ore for William Champion's brass mill.

See the examples of the extremely durable blocks of black copper slag produced as aby-product of the smelting process and which were used in the construction of local walls and buildings. An early example of waste re-cycling.