With summer definately over and wetter weather bringing welcome relief to parched landscapes, many industrial museums have a varied round of indoor autumn events getting under way. This includes a new crop of industrial heritage exhibitions.

At the Jackfield Tile Museum, part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, there is new temporary exbition of work by Lynne Wixon, a Sheffield-based industrial landscape painter who is celebrating 40 years as an artist. In 1978 she was a student of Bob Rhodes, whose paintings of industry in The Gorge are currently on display as part of the Trust’s Different Strokes exhibition in the Coalbrookdale Gallery.

At the Calderdale Industrial Museum in Halifax, Humari Kahaniyan – Our Stories, is an oral history project which explores the South Asian migrant’s contribution to the textile industry in Calderdale, particularly during the 1950s to 1980s. It is a collaborative project with two community interest companies, Everybody Arts and We Belong Here, and has been funded by Culturdale24. Its outcomes include an exhibition in the Terry Sutton Gallery of the Calderdale Industrial Museum from 6 September to 22 November, and the collection of oral history stories which will be archived at the museum.

Finally, to celebrate the City of Stoke-on-Trent’s Centenary, the Etruria Industrial Museum is hosting an exhibition entitled ‘Power in The Potteries: Energy Exhibition’. Along with other events, this highlights the City’s transition from dirty to cleaner energy and from industrial grime to clean air and reclaimed landscapes. A combination of displays and talks will show the progress that has been made in the last 100 years transitioning from coal to cleaner forms of energy. The main exhibition will be open on four days: Wednesday 17 September, Thursday 18 September, Saturday 20 September, and Sunday 21 September. The museum will also be opening its doors for free for Heritage Open Days.