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Goods for the world. European Theme Route Manufacturing
Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age. The father sat at the loom and the women of the family were responsible for spinning the yarn. An entrepreneur (in Germany he was called a "Verleger") delivered the raw material and organised sales, often over considerable distances. Textile manufacture was the leading industry in Europe: from the 16th century onwards it was basically organised on such a system. The first types of factories grew up in the 17th century, when larger groups of workers were concentrated in so-called "manufactories".
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Stowmarket, Suffolk | Museum of East Anglian Life |
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Stowmarket, Suffolk | Great Britain |
| The Museum of East Anglian Life is an open air landscape of buildings and machinery covering a huge 28 hectare site near the centre of one of East Anglia´s historic market towns, Stowmarket in Suffol... more >> |
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Strasbourg | Kronenbourg Museum |
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68 route d’Oberhausbergen | 67200 Strasbourg | France |
| Strasbourg, capital city of Alsace, has for centuries been famous for its beers, as well as for the superb wines produced on the slopes of the Vosges. The company that is now Kronenbourg was founded b... more >> |
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Street | Shoe Museum |
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40 High Street | BA16 0YA Street | Great Britain |
| The manufacture of shoes became the principal feature of the economy of the small Somerset market town of Street during the nineteenth century. A Quaker, Cyrus Clark began a leather-working business i... 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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Surte | Glassworks Museum |
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Kvarnvägen 6 | 44557 Surte | Sweden |
| The Surte Glassworks Museum near Alafors in West Gotland, 25 km north of Göteborg, commemorates a works that produced utilitarian glass ware for everyday use rather than works of art. It was founded ... 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 | 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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Tallin | Estonian Maritime Museum |
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Pikk 70 | 10133 Tallin | Estonia |
| The maritime museum is located in a 4-storey fortified tower called ‘Fat Margaret’, built between 1510 and 1529. It has displays of artefacts, photographs and documents relating to ship-building, ... more >> |
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Tartu | Estonian National Museum |
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Veski 32 | 51014 Tartu | Estonia |
| The museum at Tartu is primarily concerned with ethnography, but it has particularly important collections of clothing from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was established in 19... 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 | Jackfield Tile Museum |
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Salthouse RoadJackfield | TF8 7LJ Telford | Great Britain |
| What do an underground railway station, a hotel bar, a hospital ward and a butcher’s shop have in common? Their tiles. At Jackfield Tile Museum, all of these places are recreated, showing the stunni... more >> |
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Telford | Coalport China Museum |
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High StreetCoalport | TF8 7NH Telford | Great Britain |
| It’s a bit of a surprise when you first see the bottle ovens between the trees. There are very few of these structures left, but they are generally in the middle of urban areas – not in the middle... 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 >> |
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Terni | Bosco engineering works | Centro Multimediale di Terni SpA |
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Piazzale Antonio Bosco 3/A | 05100 Terni | Italy |
| Terni is the principal industrial city of Umbria. Manufacturing companies were first attracted by the water power available from the River Nera. Woollen mills were built in the 1860s, followed by elec... more >> |
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Thetford, Norfolk | Charles Burrell Museum |
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Minstergate | IP24 2BN Thetford, Norfolk | Great Britain |
| Charles Burrell is one of the famous names of traction engine manufacture. So what was a traction engine? Originally these were self-propelled steam engines weighing many tonnes and designed for drivi... more >> |
