The Völklinger Hütte (ironworks) in Germany’s Saarland, which was shut down in 1986, can be justifiably described as an industrial dinosaur. It extends over an area of 600,000 square metres and exempl
built in 1630. An incredible house to visit –contrast it with the Elsecar Heritage Centre and the workers houses around it, and learn what happened when coal was dug underneath the building and from the
steel tanks, ceramic vats and a weighing machine. Most of the equipment was made by the engineering works in Smyrna (Izmir) run by Constantine Issigonis (father of the designer of the Mini car). The boilers
other products. The gardens included a reflecting pool and an orangery. Nearby stables, offices and workers’ houses also showcased architectural ceramics. The house was acquired by the local authority in 2008
century Dundee had more jute factories than anywhere else in the world. One of them was the Verdant Works. The last working jute mill in Britain is now an exciting museum. Here visitors can find out more [...] before being confronted with the appalling factory conditions under which children were forced to work. They are then given the chance to contrast this to the luxurious lives of the Jute Barons and their [...] computer programmes, audio-visual scenarios, the smell of oil and the noise of running machines, Verdant Works is a place where the power of the industrial past is made vividly present.
in 1994 and is now open to visitors. Paper was made continuously on machines made by engineering works in Limoges and Angoulême and driven by two water wheels, and dried on heated cylinders. The mill’s
idyllic Old Varkaus area and near the working Varkaus Containerboard Mill. The picturesque factory workers housing area of Old Varkaus that surrounds Konsti were built by the Ahlström Company in the early
labourers worked on the construction. Approximately 2,000 died as a result of the physically strenuous work, inadequate care and inhumane living conditions. However, air raids prevented completion and no submarine [...] was ever built. In 2011, the bunker became a memorial. A path begins at the ‘Extermination through Work’ monument and runs for 1.5 kilometres through the grounds and into the concrete bunker, which is 33
the weaving on certain days. The Pelton wheel turbine installed in 1949 generates electric power to work 50-year-old looms and can be viewed. The mill museum includes carding engines, spinning mules and
eighteenth century. Other sites to visit in Norwich include former textile factories, brush works and vinegar works together with important civil engineering structures such as Coslany Bridge. Gybsons Well
by sea. There is a special emphasis on winter navigation in northern latitudes, together with the work of icebreakers. The museum has extensive archives with 2000 historical maps, more than 30,000 photographs
building of glass, the museum explains the technologies for making frames and the history of the workers in this labour-intensive industry. The important topic of vocational training is also explored, from
Kopřivnice in eastern Moravia is the site of the Tatra works, founded in Ignác Šustala (1822-81), which progressed from making horse-drawn coaches, to building railway wagons and coaches from 1881, motor [...] and commercial trucks from 1898. Production of railway vehicles ceased in the 1950s after which the works concentrated on heavy trucks. Few early buildings remain. The present technical museum has developed
visit the premises by arrangement. Adjacent to it is a large residential area designed by Aalto for workers at the plant. Reductions in the labour force mean that many houses are now occupied by others. Programmes
museum. The church in the ironworks settlement dates from to the early 1770s and there are still many workers' houses along the riverbank, the oldest of which dates from to the 18th century.
colliery line and a fleet of passenger coaches from the 1950s. Films and displays explore how trains work and the impact of coal and electricity. On scheduled days, visitors can take a ride on a 1950s passenger
stream cranes. Some were built in Romania by Malaxa and its nationalised successor the 23 August Works (later FAUR) in Bucharest and at the Domains factory at Reșița. Others came from Budapest, Berlin
produced from brine springs at Tuzla in prehistoric, Roman and medieval times. In 1884 a large new salt works was built at Tuzla by the Solana company with a pipeline for brine from salt wells several kilometres [...] period to the present day. It displays ancient wooden tools and artefacts preserved by the salt, workers' costumes, models and processing areas with evaporation pans.
the 1790s in a tour of the house and its gardens. There is also an engaging exhibition of Boulton´s work in developing the steam engine with Watt, and of the products of his Soho Manufactory, which made
