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Here we lived and worked. European Theme Route Housing & Architecture
The continuous improvement in the processing of iron and concrete during the Industrial Revolution opened up new and previously undreamt-of potentials for architects and engineers. At the same time industrialisation caused a revolution in the construction of housing as a result of the grave deficit in decent housing caused by the thousands of workers who migrated to booming factory regions. One of the first entrepreneurs to concern himself with social questions was the early British socialist, Robert Owen. At the end of the 18th century he conceived an ideal town for his workers in the utopian tradition of the Renaissance.
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Lanark | New Lanark |
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New Lanark Mills | ML11 9DB Lanark | Great Britain |
| A small village in the heart of a wild romantic landscape. There is nothing here to indicate that cotton was once manufactured here in large quantities. The fact of the matter is that New Lanark was c... more >> |
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Leeds | Temple Mill |
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2 Rossington Street | LS2 8HD Leeds | Great Britain |
| John Marshall (1765-1845) was the pioneer of the flax industry in the Industrial Revolution period, and Temple Mill in Leeds is his most impressive memorial. After entering his father’s modest linen... more >> |
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Letchworth Garden City,Hertfordshire | Letchworth Garden City |
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296 Norton Way South | SG6 1SU Letchworth Garden City,Hertfordshire | Great Britain |
| Ebenezer Howard had a vision that would end the poverty and slum conditions suffered by so many in the late Victorian era. Howard dreamed of ´Garden Cities´, where the best elements of town and coun... more >> |
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Liverpool | Merseyside Maritime Museum at Albert Dock |
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Albert Dock | L3 4AQ Liverpool | Great Britain |
| The sole remaining first class ticket for the Titanic and the complete log book of a Liverpool slave-trader: these are just two of the treasures to be found in the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverp... more >> |
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Llanberis | National Slate Museum |
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Padarn Country Park | LL55 4TY Llanberis | Great Britain |
| How do you steal a mountain? You knock it off. That’s the answer you’d get from a Welshman. The Welsh speak from experience. In North Wales they knocked off mountains en masse – in the form of h... more >> |
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Llangollen | Pontcysyllte Aqueduct |
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Gate RoadFroncysyllte | LL20 7 Llangollen | Great Britain |
| The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct carries the waterway originally called the Ellesmere Canal, but now the Llangollen Canal, some 38 m above the River Dee, and is 308 m long. It was completed in 1805 under the... more >> |
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London | Prudential Building |
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Laurence Pountney Hall | EC4R 0HH London | Great Britain |
| The growth of manufacturing industry in Europe was sustained by the development of financial institutions that provided capital for entrepreneurs and a measure of security for the population at large.... more >> |
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London | Bankside power station | Tate Modern |
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Bankside | SE1 9TG London | Great Britain |
| The conversion of the Bankside power station in London into the United Kingdom’s National Museum of International Modern Art is one of the outstanding examples in Europe of the imaginative adaptatio... more >> |
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London | St Pancras Station |
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Pancras Road | NW1 2QP London | Great Britain |
| St Pancras station is one of the most distinguished railway termini in Europe, and from November 2007 has been the gateway between the railway systems of Great Britain and continental Europe.
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London | Streatham Street Apartments | Parnell House |
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Streatham Street | WC1A London | Great Britain |
| The most distinctive form of working-class housing in 19th century London was the multi-storey apartment block, built originally by charitable societies, and from the 1890s by public authorities.
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Ludlow | Clee Hills |
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Castle Street | SY8 1AS Ludlow | Great Britain |
| The area around Clee Hill village, 8 km east of Ludlow, provides vivid evidence of an eighteenth century squatting community in which industry developed on a considerable scale. On the Clee Hills, whi... more >> |
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Lutherstadt Wittenberg | Piesteritz housing estate |
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Karl-Liebknecht-Platz 20 | 06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg | Germany |
| This housing estate is a real stroke of luck. It was built between 1916 and 1919 by a young Swiss architect called Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, and throughout its existence it has been spared the fate of i... more >> |
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L’Espluga de Francoli | Museum of Wine | The wine cathedral |
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Josep M. Rendé, 5 | 43440 L’Espluga de Francoli | Spain |
| L’Espluga de Francoli is a wine-making town some 30 km north of Tarragona. The ‘wine cathedral’ is the name often given to this amazing early twentieth century building, which consists of three ... more >> |
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Madrid | Atocha Station |
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Glorieta del Emperador Carlos V | 28012 Madrid | Spain |
| The Atocha terminus is the largest in Madrid, but from the point of view of industrial heritage it consists of two separate stations which comprise one of the most extraordinary industrial heritage sp... more >> |
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Manchester | Fairfield Moravian Settlement |
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Fairfield | M11 4DA Manchester | Great Britain |
| Fairfield is a Moravian community, 6 km east of the centre of Manchester, established from 1785, largely through the initiative of Rev Benjamin La Trobe (1728-86), father of the architect Benjamin La ... more >> |
