designed the model of planned urban development in 1898 in response to poor housing and living conditions as well as the horrendous rise in land prices in major cities that had grown considerably due to

a depth of 170 metres, visitors can go even further back into the past, and experience working conditions around 1900 in such a realistic manner that they could be excused for thinking that time had stood

These were all the ideas of a manufacturer named Robert Owen who wanted to create good living conditions for his workers. At the time, 1800 -1825, this was sensational. Today New Lanark is a World Heritage

from the surrounding area by high walls. The mining company not only dictated everyday working conditions but also the miners´ private lives in the neighbouring housing settlement. Since 1983 visitors

who came here from all over Europe to earn a living under harsh, and sometimes perilous, working conditions. A new modern building is dedicated to the history of glassmaking, whereas a hall containing noisy

in the forest of Paimpont, around 40 kilometres west of Rennes, as the location offered the best conditions for an ironworks: good iron ore, a water system already built by monks and sufficient wood from

guided tour through the underground galleries is a sweaty experience and requires a good physical condition. The trip starts with putting on the right dress: change of underwear, overall, helmet and lamp

the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and working conditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several old houses are furnished as workers' homes from different

petroleum lamps and perfume bottles. The permanent exhibition documents the living and working conditions of glass workers in the early period of industrialisation. The Glass Museum is simultaneously a

petrol station of the late 1920s, stroll through a replica street scene, experience the working conditions in a still operative transmission workshop and curiously explore the former director’s villa. Film

miners who lost their lives at work. A reconstructed section of mine allows visitors to see the conditions underground, methods of supporting the rock, ventilation systems, lighting and coal cutting techniques

which it was marketed and its uses for advertising. The ticket office has been restored to the condition in which it operated in the 1920s. The station, designed by Antonio Palacios (1874-1945) is remarkable

dwellings, complete with an original collier’s pub and an old grocery store recount the living conditions of the miners who once worked here. A journey along the “Minieresbunn”, a narrow-gauge railway

four that survive in the UK, and of these, it is the best preserved. The factory is in remarkable condition and apart from going under the furnace and inside the cone, you can see the lehr, where the glass

1802 in Cunern (Konary, Poland). From 1835, the German Customs Union created favourable economic conditions for the cultivation of sugar beet and the beet sugar industry. By 1900, more than 600 beet sugar

8º-10ºBe and crystallizes a 25º Be (Mediterranean water has a density of 2º-3ºBe). Meteorological conditions determine the production season . It usually starts in June and finishes at the end of August.

in Birmingham and hear the stories of the firms and the people who worked in the industry. The conditions that workers endured were appalling by today’s standards, yet each worker would produce thousands

extend only about 30 m from the entrance. They nevertheless convey a vivid impression of the working conditions of iron ore miners in the 19th century. Associated with the mine is the Ressell Forge , once a

ascended to an outlet on the hill top. Visitors can gain some understanding of the harsh working conditions endured by generations of coal miners in Murcia, and can learn something of other mines in the

and museum are located near Cheddleton station which remains in its original nineteenth-century condition. The railway’s administrative headquarters is at Kingsley & Froghall station. Trains are regularly