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ERIH Annual Conference 2008 - "Old Iron is not enough"
The ERIH annual conference 2008 showed European industrial heritage as a success factor for tourism...
Welcome
to the European Route of Industrial Heritage, the tourism information network of industrial heritage in Europe.
Currently we present more than 830 sites in 29 European countries. Among these sites there are 66 Anchor Points which build the virtual ERIH main route. On ten Regional Routes you can discover the industrial history of these landscapes in detail. All sites relate to ten European Theme Routes which show the diversity of European industrial history and their common roots.
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Kelham Island Museum | Sheffield
Knives, saws, scythes, files, razor blades, cutlery. No doubt about it, Sheffield is the...
Do you know...
that the first person in the world to build a textile factory was a former wigmaker?
In 1771 in the village of Cromford, not far from Nottingham, a British citizen and former wigmaker by the name of Richard Arkwright invented a hitherto unheard of machine called the water frame. He harnessed the water from the River Derwent to drive the water wheels of a spinning frame that, until then, was only operated by hand. The water frame, as it was known, was able to spin fine yarn at breathtaking speed. The site of the factory is now an anchor point along the European Route of Industrial Heritage …
