1. What is Industry?
2. What sorts of industry are there where you live?
3. Where can you go to study industry in your area?
4. What are some of the problems involved in researching industry in your area?
5. Are there any industries that are no longer in existence where you live?
6. How can you find what they did?
7. Have any industries left any features in the landscape?
8. Are there any street or road names that could give a hint of previous industry in your area?
9. What would it be like if you worked in a coal mine, in an Iron and Steel works or in a factory in the nineteenth and twentieth century?
10. What was the role of women in industry where you live?
11. If you found someone who used to work in a factory, steel works or coal mine what
sort of questions could you ask them?
12. What are some of the problems you could have with their answers?
13. Have the companies that exist in your area always made the same products?
14. How can you find out?
15. How can you find out what the local industry in your area did during wartime?
16. Did the companies make things for the war effort?
17. If so, what did they make?
18. Why do some companies seem to disappear after three or four generations?
19. What effects could industry have on the social conditions in your area?
20. What were the economic effects of industry during the nineteenth century where you live?