Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet has received a National Lottery grant to fund preparatory work towards a £900,000 project aiming to ‘transform’ the museum.
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust, which runs the site, off Abbeydale Road South, has been awarded £47,200 to help develop the plans, which involve creating a learning centre for educational visits, restoration of water wheels and construction of new workshops for use by modern-day metalworkers.
The trust is to apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund again later this year for the balance of the funding to make the scheme a reality.
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust said the work would ‘transform’ the museum.
Trust chairman Alex Pettifer said: “We’re delighted the Heritage Lottery Fund has given us this support, it is a truly significant success for the trust.
“Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is a place of outstanding historical significance and it is important that we continue to preserve the site.
“Sheffield will be a much better place for the protection of the historical and industrial heritage of the city and how it helped place Sheffield on the world map.”
Fiona Spiers, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund for Yorkshire and the Humber, added: “Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet provides a great insight into the industrial heritage that is synonymous with the local area. “We are pleased to give initial support to this worthwhile project.”
The museum incorporates numerous 18th and 19th century listed buildings and is listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
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