mill, in which he had a 20% share, which attracted attention from all over Europe. The Cromford Mill site, which probably began to work in 1774, was powered by the Bonsall Brook, a tributary of the River

preserving artefacts and buildings relating to the social and industrial history of the region. A site became available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson was appointed to direct the museum

the Oranienburger Tor, where he served for some years as works manager. He subsequently acquired a site for a foundry on Chausseestrasse adjacent to his former employer`s works, where the first castings [...] shops and a foundry in Kirchstrase in 1850, by which time he was employing 1,800 men on the three sites. He had a reputation as a benevolent employer who provided educational facilities, dining rooms and

capital from his wife’s family and in 1761 he began building a large water-powered factory on a new site at Soho near Birmingham to manufacture small metal goods such as buttons, belt buckles and clock parts

commercial world thought him extravagant, but altho’ he was so, great things are not done by those who sit down and count the cost of every thought and act’.

his new Cromford factory at Ratingen, 40 kilometres away from Elberfeld. It used an old water-power site on the river Anger. It was five storeys high and designed on the Arkwright model by Rutger Flügel

Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953), who gave her a home in Mayfair and, in 1927, a site on the Riviera where she built her villa La Pausa . In the late 1930s she went to Hollywood to do

the twentieth century, was one of Europe’s principal motor car manufacturing centres, and on a 19 ha site at Jarvel, on the River Seine in the 15 th arrondissement, André Citroën built what was to prove the [...] company is commemorated by the Parc André Citroën, opened in 1992, alongside the River Seine on the site of the company’s first large works.

few years previously. Darby and his partners also developed a water-powered works at Tern (on the site of the present Attingham Park), where they intended to refine pig iron into wrought iron and to roll

Duro collaborated with Gil to create the Sociedá Metalúrxica de Llangréu. He expanded with a second site in 1864 and later leased the Gil ironworks. He bought a steamship to transport his products. In 1868

n. Within two years it already employed 300 people. In the next few years BASF set up production sites in France and Russia and opened an office in New York. Engelhorn recruited expert chemists who developed

and New Zealand. It also made diesel locomotives. Frich still exists as an engineering company. The site of the old foundry is now a business park.

line railway to pass through a region of high mountains, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. He was born in Venice, then part of the Habsburg Empire, the son of Anton Ghega, an Albania [...] 1848 and 1854 and is notable for the elegance of its 16 major viaducts. The UNESCO World Heritage Site covers a 41km section from Gloggnitz, 436m above sea level, to the summit at 895m and on to Mürzzuschlag

weaving woollen cloth, but in 1835 they established a woollen factory nearby at Schläifmille, on the site of a flour mill powered by the River Alzette. They imported wool through Antwerp and Marseille and

Nantes on the west coast. The foundry in Batignolles produced bridges in iron and later in steel for sites in France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and French colonial North Africa. Many

equipment and bring British technicians to work it. With his brother-in-law Niels Young, he bought the site of a sawmill at a waterfall on the Akerselva river at Christiana in 1844. They built a new two-story

Nights’. From the mid-1850s he developed an interest in geology, and visited railway construction sites in Leicestershire and iron ore quarries in Northamptonshire to collect fossils revealed by excavations

his family gave the park to the people of Barcelona, and it is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes Gaudi’s principal buildings in the Barcelona region.

given its name to collections of buildings that have been scientifically removed from their original sites in many European countries. Hazelius was the son of a military officer, was educated at the University

brewing ceased on the historic site at Stadhouderskade, Amsterdam, in 1988. The Heineken Experience visitor centre, opened in 2001, occupies an Art Deco building of 1910 on the site. Heineken took over its principal