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ERIH Board meeting in Katowice/Poland
On invitation of the Silesian Voivodeship the ERIH board met in Katowice/Poland and discussed with...
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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
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The tracks of the Industrial Revolution. European Theme Route Transport
During the early years of the Industrial Revolution there was a radical change in transportation. The arrival of pounding steamships and steam locomotives gave a huge boost to industrialisation. The change began on the canals which, for centuries, had proved to be the best means of transporting goods. In 1761, the Bridgewater canal was completed in one of the birthplaces of the industrial age, the British textile area Lancashire; from then on, the route supplied the booming city of Manchester with coal.
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Stockholm | Museum of Science and Technology |
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Museivagen 7 | 115 93 Stockholm | Sweden |
| Sweden’s national museum of science and technology was founded in 1924 under the patronage of several of the country’s leading learned societies and industrial organisations. It is located in a bu... more >> |
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Stockholm | Maritime Museum |
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Djurgardsbrunnsvagen 24 | 102 52 Stockholm | Sweden |
| The maritime museum portrays the role of merchant shipping, naval defence and shipbuilding in the history of Sweden. Its collections includes 1,500 models of ships of all kinds of all periods from the... more >> |
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Stoke Bruerne | Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum |
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Bridge Road | NN12 7SE Stoke Bruerne | Great Britain |
| Stoke Bruerne stands on the Grand Junction Canal (now called the Grand Union Canal), just south of the 2794 m Blisworth Tunnel, and the canal resembles a village street running through a lock between ... more >> |
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Stourport-on-Severn | Stourport Basins |
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DY13 8QN Stourport-on-Severn | Great Britain |
| Ask most people in the West Midlands about Stourport-on-Severn, and they will tell you it is a great day out. The town is popular with visitors from the urban areas because of its beautiful riverside ... more >> |
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Strasshof an der Nordbahn | Heizhaus Railway Museum |
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123 Sillerstrasse | 2231 Strasshof an der Nordbahn | Austria |
| Strasshof lies 25 km east of Vienna and between 1908 and 1951 was the site of a large marshalling yard around which grew up a community of railwaymen living in houses in the Garden City style. The rai... more >> |
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Stuttgart | Mercedes-Benz Museum |
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Mercedesstraße 100 | 70327 Stuttgart | Germany |
| Stuttgart is one of the principal centres of motor car production and development in Europe since Gottlieb Wilhem Daimler (1834-1900) set up a workshop in the suburb of Bad Cannstadt in 1890. His comp... more >> |
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Stuttgart | Television Tower |
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Jahnstrasse 120 | 70597 Stuttgart | Germany |
| Rising, like a concrete-and-steelneedle, from the Degerloch Forest, the Fernsehturm, completed on 3 February 1956, was a symbol of Stuttgart’s recovery from the Second World War. It was designed by ... more >> |
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Sudbury | River Stour Navigation |
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Quay Lane | CO10 2AN Sudbury | Great Britain |
| The River Stour Navigation dates from 1705 and is one of the earliest river navigation improvements of the modern age. It remained in use for commercial traffic for over 200 hundred years connecting t... more >> |
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Swansea | National Waterfront Museum |
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Cambrian Place | SA1 1SN Swansea | Great Britain |
| Large kinetic sculptures in continuous movement. Movies and computer screens with interactive film sequences. Graphics and projections. A multi-media show wall demonstrating how fireproof bricks, iron... more >> |
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Swindon | STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway |
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Kemble Drive | SN2 2TA Swindon | Great Britain |
| Swindon, on the main line of the Great Western Railway between Bristol and London, was the location of the company’s principal locomotive and carriage works, which at its peak in the early 20th cent... more >> |
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Swindon | Science Museum |
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Wroughton | SN4 9LT Swindon | Great Britain |
| Large objects from the collection of the National Museum of Science & Industry that cannot be displayed at South Kensingon are held at the former RAF base at Wroughton, Wiltshire, in six hangars and a... more >> |
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Szczecin | Maritime Museum |
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Ul Waly Chrobrego 3 | 70-500 Szczecin | Poland |
| The Maritime Museum is a division of the National Museum in the Baltic port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin) in Western Pomerania, and is accommodated in an exhibition building designed by the architect... more >> |
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Tavistock | Morwellham Quay |
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Morwellham Quay | PL19 8JL Tavistock | Great Britain |
| Time has stood still at Morwellham Quay. The streets are full of servants and merchants in Victorian costume and miners are hurrying towards their shift. In the busy assay office copper ore from the s... more >> |
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Telford | Iron Bridge |
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Ironbridge Gorge Museum TrustCoach RoadCoalbrookdale | TF8 7DQ Telford | Great Britain |
| Length: 30.6 metres. Height: 16.75 metres. Weight: 378 tons. These are the basic facts about the Iron Bridge, which spans the Severn Valley in Telford. But who can regard the history of the first ever... more >> |
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Telford-Ironbridge | Blists Hill Victorian Town |
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Legges WayMadeley | TF7 5DU Telford-Ironbridge | Great Britain |
| You’ll need to exchange some money at the bank when you arrive, because the coins they used in 1900 were very different to the ones in your pocket today. But even a few pennies can buy quite a lot i... more >> |
