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1. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Riverside Industry Village.
2. To start your visit, I'm just going to give you a brief account of the history of the museum before leting roam about on your own.
3. I won't keep you long.
4. oK?
5. Now, from where we're standing, you've got a good view of the river over there.
6. And it was becasue of this fast-flowing water that this site was natural place for manufacturing works.
7. The water and the availablity of raw materials in the aera, like minerals and iron ore, and also the abundance of the local fuels, like coal and firewood, all made this site suitable for industry form a very early time.
8. Water was the main source of power for the early indusries, and some of the water wheels was first established in the twelfth century, would you believe?
9. At that time, local craftsmen first build an iron forge just behind the village here, on the bend in the river.
10. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the region's rivers supported more than a hundred and sixty water mills, and many of these countined to operate well into the nineteenth century.
11. But then the steam engine was invented and then the railways came and the centres of industry was able to move away from the rivers and the countryside and into the towns.
12. So, industrial villages like this one became very rare.
13. So, that's the history for you.
14. If you'd like any more information, you can ask me some questions, or you can read further in our excellent guide book. Befor you hear the rest of the talk you have some time to look at the questions fourteen to twenty. Now listen and answer aquestions fourteen to twenty.
15. Now I'm going to give you a plan of the site, and I'd just like to point out where everything is and then you can take a look at everything for yourself.
16. I've already pointed out the river, which is on the left.
17. And of course, running along the bottom is Woodside Road, got it?
18. Ok.
19. Now we're standing at the entrance, see it at the bottom, and immediately to our right is the Ticket Office.
20. You won't need that because you've got your group booking, but just past it are the toliets, always good to know where they are.
21. In front of us is the car park, as you can see, and to the left, by the entry gate is the Gift Shop.
22. That's where you can get copies of the guide, like this one here.
23. Now, beyond the car park all the buildings are ranged in a half circle with a yard in the middle.
24. The big, stone building at the top is the main Workshop.
25. That's where the furnace is and where all the metal were smelted and the tools were cast, as you'll be able to see.
26. Now, in the top right-hand corner, that building with bigger windows is the Showroom, where samples of all the tools that were made through the ages are on display.
27. In the top left corner is the Grinding Shop, where the tools were sharpened and finished.
28. And on one side of that you can see the Engine Room, and on the other is the Cafe, which isn't an antique, you'll be please to know, though they do serve very nice old-fashioned teas.
29. The row of buildings you can see on the left are the cottages.
30. There were built for the workers towards the end of the eighteenth century and they're still furnished from that period so you can get a good idead of ordinary polple's living conditions.
31. Across the yard from them, you can see the sables where the horses were kept for tansporting the products.
32. And the separate building in front of them is the Works Office and that still has some of the old accounts on display.
33. Right, if anyone wants a guide tour then I'm starting at the Engine Room.
34. If you'd like to come along, this way please, ladies and gentlemen.