Claire Barratt (born 1974) is an English industrial archaeologist, steam engineer and television presenter.
Barratt studied civil engineering at the University of Portsmouth, [1] and whilst doing so, became more interested in mechanical engineering.
On graduation she worked at the Chiltern Open Air Museum, the Royal Armouries and the British Engineerium, where she remains a consultant engineer. It was from here that her television career was launched when she appeared on Channel 4's Salvage Squad – a programme about restoring historical machinery – first as a participant, later as co-presenter. Whilst filming, she completed a master's degree in Conservation of Industrial Heritage and won the Association for Industrial Archaeology Student Fieldwork Award.
Presently a freelance consultant industrial archaeologist, Barratt has restored and run many different vehicles, and is currently restoring a watermill in Cornwall. She is a member of Subterranea Britannica, a society which studies and records man-made underground sites.
Barratt is married to a fellow car enthusiast and has two daughters. [1]
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