Date:1736 - 1819 (c.)
Description:James Watt's attic workshop at his Heathfield home was preserved after his death in 1819. This exhibition focuses on the album of photographs collated by Thomas Edgar Pemberton who lived there for a time. Pemberton wrote a biography of James Watt and was the first person to make an examination of the attic and its contents after Watt's death. More of the pictures assoicated with the Pemberton album can be found under the keyword search facility on the site by keying in "watt" or "pemberton".
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James Watt's attic workshop at his Heathfield home was preserved after his death in 1819. This exhibition ...
Following James Watt's death in 1819 Heathfield was inherited by his son James Watt junior. It seems ...
The Pembertons moved into Heathfield in February 1857. The house was being looked after by caretakers ...
Thomas Pemberton, in his biography of Watt, recalled the day when the attic was at last re-opened. "We ...
All who entered the attic were struck by the feeling that Watt had "just left the room" despite the ...
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