How Britain Worked

S1 E4 ∙

Guy Martin and a team from the Black Country Living Museum restore a Newcomen engine, an 18th-century steam-powered device used principally to pump water out of mines.

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S1 E1

Guy Martin overhauls a steam locomotive currently in use on the Severn Valley Railway.

S1 E2

Guy Martin renovates a sawmill in Wensleydale in North Yorkshire.

S1 E3

Guy Martin tries to return the resort of Llandudno to its former Victorian glory.

S1 E4

Guy Martin helps in the restoration of an 18th-century steam-powered device used in mines.

S1 E5

Guy Martin helps with the restoration of the oldest surviving Brixham sailing trawler.