Founded in 1778, Richard Garrett and Sons were world-famous manufacturers of steam engines, agricultural machinery and trolley buses.
It was Richard Garrett III, grandson to the company founder, who became interested in the idea of ‘assembly line’ construction and, in 1852, built a new workshop for that purpose.
The workshop was known as the ‘long shop’, on account of its length. That building, and others relating to the Works, are now all part of the Long Shop Museum, and that’s where we went for the third game of the season.
'I went home and told my grandfather what we'd been doing in Extra Time and he told me that he used to work at Garrretts Engineering - I never knew that before.'
The Museum’s community room provided an excellent space for a game of ‘pretend Works football’.
Inside the Museum, the children tracked down the source of some of the images they’d been using—and discovered all manner of other, qwerty, things as well.
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