J Minns, creator of the marvellous British Engineerium in Hove has died. It seems he was a very interesting character as well as expert engineer.
It says the Eng'm is due to re-open in 2016. It's shocking to think it was almost lost , as a building and then later as the Engineerium. It would have been a loss to the nation - I don't think that's an exaggeration. I hope it's next incarnation will be long-lived.
"... perhaps the highlight of the rich collection of machines he garnered over several decades, George Stephenson's own, handbuilt model of Locomotion, the famous Stockton and Darlington railway locomotive that steamed, at speeds of up to 15mph, during the reign of William IV.
Minns brought these treasures together in the 1970s at the redundant Goldstone pumping station, a grand and polychrome Sussex shrine to Victorian sanitation complete with a 95ft chimney modelled on a campanile. Opened in 1866, it was built, under the direction of the self-taught Nottingham engineer Thomas Hawksley, to supply water to Brighton and Hove. From 1971, Minns campaigned energetically to save this magnificent waterworks, complete with a pair of mighty compound beam engines. "
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/01/jonathan-minns
It says the Eng'm is due to re-open in 2016. It's shocking to think it was almost lost , as a building and then later as the Engineerium. It would have been a loss to the nation - I don't think that's an exaggeration. I hope it's next incarnation will be long-lived.
"... perhaps the highlight of the rich collection of machines he garnered over several decades, George Stephenson's own, handbuilt model of Locomotion, the famous Stockton and Darlington railway locomotive that steamed, at speeds of up to 15mph, during the reign of William IV.
Minns brought these treasures together in the 1970s at the redundant Goldstone pumping station, a grand and polychrome Sussex shrine to Victorian sanitation complete with a 95ft chimney modelled on a campanile. Opened in 1866, it was built, under the direction of the self-taught Nottingham engineer Thomas Hawksley, to supply water to Brighton and Hove. From 1971, Minns campaigned energetically to save this magnificent waterworks, complete with a pair of mighty compound beam engines. "
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/01/jonathan-minns
