“The Heart of England Route of Industrial Heritage” was launched on the 25th July by Brian Summers, Chairman of Tourism West Midlands, with Steve Miller, Chief Executive, Ironbridge Gorge Museum and David Buckley, ERIH UK Co-ordinator at Thinktank, Birmingham.

Keith Brown, Chief Executive of East of England Tourism recently launched “The Industrious East,” a network of ERIH sites representing industry in the East of England at Royal Gunpowder Mills. Keith Brown welcomed the ERIH initiative and said, “The East of England is a region rich in Industrial Heritage with 30 attractions in the ERIH network.

The Flemish Mining Museum in Beringen and the Ecomuseum Bois-du-Luc in La Louvière are the first two Anchor Points in Belgium joining the ERIH network and thereby increase the total number of Anchor Points to 65. During an official presentation on 30th May the two new Anchor Points received the ERIH signs.

In response to an invitation from the Director of the Museum of the Douro ERIH was representend at a two day conference held in Portugal on the 24th-25th September.