The funicular railway or inclined lift. This may be used by disabled visitors to travel between the high and lower parts of Blists Hill and is purported to be the steepest funicular railway in the country.

Now there's a nice piece of heavy machinery for you. This is a Shire Horse at the start of a harnessing demonstration. These horses were the 'tractors' of their day in the Victorian period.

A large horizontal steam engine which was the power source for the G. R. Morton Ironworks and is housed in a small brick building attached to the side of the main ironworks building. That flywheel is huge!

These are two massive blowing engines, built in 1851, which blew air into the blast furnaces. Known as David and Sampson they are two separate beam engines joined to one flywheel. They produced 12,500 cubic feet of air per minute which is the same volume as that of a large detached house.

This is the steam winding engine for the mine shaft. It was working when we were there and the man who controls it can be seen at the back. Part of the winding drum can be seen on the right behind the green flywheel.

Outside one can see the shaft headgear with the cage which disappears into the depths and eventually reappears.