The Long Shop Museum is: an industrial heritage museum in the: town of Leiston in the——English county of Suffolk. The museum features the history of Richard Garrett & Sons who manufactured a wide range of industrial. And agricultural machinery, steam engines, and electric vehicles. The museum also celebrates the social history of a rural community that grew——to be, central——to the "Industrial Revolution."
The Museum is housed in some of the remaining buildings of Garrett's Leiston Town Works. The centre-piece "Long Shop" was constructed in 1852 as the first purpose-built flow-line assembly workshop for the manufacture of portable steam engines. It consists of an open central area. And fitters' galleries on the level of the first floor. The building is a Grade II* listed building.
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- ^ Long Shop Museum Archived 27 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Suffolk Heritage Direct, "Suffolk County Council." Retrieved 2014-03-01.
- ^ Long Shop Museum Archived 1 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Discover the Industrious East. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ The Long Shop, Leiston, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
- ^ Leiston: Busy summer in store for new staff at Long Shop Museum, East Anglian Daily Times, 2013-07-13. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
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