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Goods for the world. European Theme Route Manufacturing
Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age. The father sat at the loom and the women of the family were responsible for spinning the yarn. An entrepreneur (in Germany he was called a "Verleger") delivered the raw material and organised sales, often over considerable distances. Textile manufacture was the leading industry in Europe: from the 16th century onwards it was basically organised on such a system. The first types of factories grew up in the 17th century, when larger groups of workers were concentrated in so-called "manufactories".
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Brest | National Maritime Museum and Museum of the Port Louis East India Company |
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Chateau de Brest | 29200 Brest | France |
| The maritime museum has been located since 1958 in one of the finest fortresses on the French coast, one that has walls surviving from Gallo-Roman fortifications of the 3rd century ad, but which is la... more >> |
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Bromborough | Bromborough Pool Village |
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Manor Pl | CH62 Bromborough | Great Britain |
| Bromborough Pool Village is one of the most interesting of the communities established by entrepreneurs for their workers, although it is less well-known than Port Sunlight, which lies only 2 km to th... more >> |
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Brugge | Choco-Story |
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Wijnzalstraat 2Sint-Jansplein | 8000 Brugge | Belgium |
| Belgian makers of chocolate have long been celebrated for the quality of their products, and their skills are celebrated in this museum in the centre of Bruges. It is located in the Maison de Croon, a... more >> |
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Brussels | Le Musée Bruxellois de la Geuze |
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Rue Gheude/Straat 56 | 1070 Brussels | Belgium |
| The Gueuze museum provides an unusual opportunity to see beer brewed in a traditional way on an industrial scale. The museum is a fully-operational brewery, worked by the Van Roy-Cantillon family whos... more >> |
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Bucharest | Technical Museum Prof Ing D Leonida |
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Str. Candiano Popescu 2 | Bucharest | Romania |
| Romania’s technical museum was established in 1928 by the engineer Dimitrie Leonida (1883-1965), and has been located in its present building, a pavilion from the Bucharest World Fair of 1906, since... more >> |
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Budapest | Electrotecnical Museum |
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Kazinczy u. 21 | 1075 Budapest | Hungary |
| Budapest is one of Europe’s principal industrial cities. Its two component cities, Buda and Pest, are linked across the River Danube by several historic bridges, including the Chain Bridge, designed... more >> |
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Burton upon Trent | National Brewery Centre |
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Horninglow Street | DE14 1NG Burton upon Trent | Great Britain |
| The man who invented clogs must have been a brewer. The robust shoes with thick wooden soles were ideal for keeping people´s feet warm and dry on cold, wet brewery floors. Once, the whole of Burton u... more >> |
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Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk | Greene King Brewery |
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Greene KingWestgate Brewery | IP33 1QT Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk | Great Britain |
| This is one of England´s oldest and largest traditional working breweries. Here, you can join one of the daily Brewery Tours to see the beers actually being made using natural ingredients and traditi... more >> |
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Bushmills | Old Bushmills Distillery |
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2 Distillery Road | BT57 8XH Bushmills | Great Britain |
| Portrush is a resort on the coast of Co Antrim, with harbour installations of 1827-36 by John Rennie, and a spectacular railway station of 1892-3, designed by Berkely Deane, now used for other purpose... more >> |
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Campbeltown | The Tasting Room |
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8 Bolgam Street | PA28 6HZ Campbeltown | Great Britain |
| Campbeltown, 90 km south-west of Glasgow, is the principal town on the Mull of Kintyre peninsula, and in the 19th century its 34 distilleries rivalled Speyside as a centre for the manufacture of whisk... more >> |
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Campo Maior | Nova Delta Coffee Museum |
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Herdade das Argamassas | 7370 Campo Maior | Portugal |
| Coffee is enjoyed throughout Europe, but what is perhaps the only European coffee museum is at Campo Maior in central Portugal, 20 km north-west of Badajoz. Established by the Nova Delta company in 19... more >> |
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Capellades | Capellades Paper Mill Museum |
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Pau Casal 10 | 08786 Capellades | Spain |
| The region around the town of Capellades was the most important centre for paper production in Catalonia. The museum is based in the Moli de la Vila, a 4-storey, 18-bay building of 1754. The technolog... more >> |
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Carmaux | Glass museum |
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Avenue Jean-Jaurès F | 81400 Carmaux | France |
| Carmaux, a town with a population of 10,000 on the River Tarn in the Mid-Pyrenees, 80 km north of Toulouse, is the centre of a small coalfield, measuring only about 10 km X 3 km. The mines were develo... more >> |
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Carrara | Museum of Marble Quarrying |
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Viale XX Settembre, 85 | 54 033 Carrara | Italy |
| Carrara is one of Europe’s principal sources of marble, and since Roman times its quarries have supplied materials for buildings and memorials in many countries. The principal workings appear from t... more >> |
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Castellar de n’Hug | Asland Cement Museum |
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Paratge del Clot Moro | 08696 Castellar de n’Hug | Spain |
| Portland cement factories were built in most industrialised countries in Europe during the late 19th century and the early 20th century, but few were as spectacular as that at Castellar de n’Hug abo... more >> |
