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18.11.08
ERIH Annual Conference 2008 - "Old Iron is not enough"
The ERIH annual conference 2008 showed European industrial heritage as a success factor for tourism...
From raw materials to the factory. European Theme Route Textiles
The thousands of rattling bobbins on the spinning frames in cotton factories have become a byword for industrialisation. British cotton mills were indeed the forerunners of, and models for the industrial revolution. That said, the first textile factory was a silk twining mill. The five-storey building was constructed in Derby as early as 1720, and contained more than 26.000 water-driven spindles. Since the Middle Ages Italy had been the centre of silk processing, and the machines came from there. The problem was that they were incapable of spinning, and simply twisted ...
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Arhus | The Old Town |
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Viborgvej 2 | 8000 Arhus | Denmark |
| The Old Town in Arhus, the principal city of Jutland, is unusual amongst European open air museums in that it consists largely of urban buildings rather than farmsteads that have been removed from the... more >> |
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Augsburg | Textile quarter | tim - Bavarian textil and industrial museum |
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PrinzstraĂźe 49c | 86153 Augsburg | Germany |
| Augsburg, a free city until 1806 when it was incorporated in Bavaria, was one of the wealthiest cities in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. That wealth was founded in part on trading in... more >> |
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Balmaseda | La Encartada Museum |
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Bo El Penueco 11 | 48.800 Balmaseda | Spain |
| The factory called La Encartada at Balmaseda, 24 km south-west of Bilbao, was established in 1892 by a locally-born entrepreneur Marcos Arena Bermejillo, with capital he had acquired during a stay in ... more >> |
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Bärnau | German Button Museum |
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Tachauer Strasse 2 | 95671 Bärnau | Germany |
| The town of Bärnau in the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz), 48 km south-east of Hof, has for centuries been one of the chief sources of buttons in Germany, and the industry continues today.
The museu... more >> |
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Benburb | Benburb Valley Heritage Centre |
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Milltown Road | BT71 7LZ Benburb | Great Britain |
| The most important industry in north-eastern Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries was the manufacture of linen, and one of the best monuments of that industry in the Bunburb Valley Heritage Centre, ... more >> |
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Bergisch Gladbach | Regional Museum of Mining, Handicraft and Trade |
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Burggraben 9-12 | 51429 Bergisch Gladbach | Germany |
| The cellar is amazing! Suddenly it opens out into a complete mining gallery! Rough hewn timber struts support the walls and ceilings, trolleys and drills stand at the ready, a hoisting cage is there, ... more >> |
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Berlin | German Technical Museum |
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Trebbiner Strasse 9 | 10963 Berlin | Germany |
| The German Technical Museum holds one of the largest collections of its kind in Europe, but dates only from 1982. It was initially a museum of railways, and is based at the former Anhalter Bahnhof, on... more >> |
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Bielsko-Biala | Bielsko-Biala Museum |
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Sulkowski CastleUl Wzgorze 16 | 43-300 Bielsko-Biala | Poland |
| The twin towns of Bielsko and Biala on either side of the Biala River, that make up the modern city of Bielsko-Biala both have medieval origins. They were part of the Habsburg Empire between 1772 and ... more >> |
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Bocholt | Textile Museum |
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UhlandstraĂźe 50 | 46397 Bocholt | Germany |
| Most of the people in the MĂĽnsterland region of North-West Germany used to live from agriculture. But during the industrial revolution the town of Bocholt in the west of the region became one of the ... more >> |
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Bolton | Bolton Museum & Art Gallery |
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Le Mans Crescent | BL1 1SE Bolton | Great Britain |
| The textile machinery collection is an extremely important one. The museum began collecting textile machines in the 19th century and amongst the items at the heart of this collection is the only survi... more >> |
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Boras | Textile History Museum |
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Druveforsvagen 8 | 50433 Boras | Sweden |
| Boras, in central Sweden, has been an important textile centre since the sixteenth century, and in the nineteenth century specialised in the production of cotton, but one of the principal themes of it... more >> |
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Bradford | Saltaire Village |
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City Hall | BD1 1HY Bradford | Great Britain |
| David Hockney painted Salts Mill in warm ochre tones. Today both the painter and the place are world-famous. Hockney was born in the Northern industrial city of Bradford. And Salts Mill, an old textil... more >> |
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Bradford | Manningham Mill |
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60 Carlisle Road | BD8 8BD Bradford | Great Britain |
| Manningham Mill on the north side of Bradford, with a floor space of 11 ha and a chimney 78 m tall, is one of the most imposing textile factories in Europe. It was designed in the Italianate style by ... more >> |
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Braintree, Essex | Braintree Museum |
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Manor Street | CM7 3YG Braintree, Essex | Great Britain |
| Braintree was the home town of two companies famous in the 19th and 20th centuries; Courtaulds and Crittalls Windows. The Museum is the focus for this distinguished industrial heritage in both textile... more >> |
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Braintree, Essex | Warner Textile Archive |
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Silks Way | CM7 3YG Braintree, Essex | Great Britain |
| The Warner Textile Archive contains a vast selection of over 80,000 silk cloths, brocades and velvets, designs and point papers. It is the second largest collection of its kind in the UK, the largest ... more >> |
