River Emscher still contained fish and crabs and the occasional windmill turned lazily along river banks that were full of reeds. All around was a thinly populated agricultural landscape, where wild horses

Drop Forge LVL Industrial Museum Stoke-on-Trent (GB). Gladstone Pottery Museum Styal (GB). Quarry Bank Mill Tavistok (GB). Morwellham Quay Telford (GB). Blists Hill Victorian Town Telford (GB). Iron Bridge

demand, especially in England and southern Europe. The expanding fishery drove the economy. The first bank was established in 1855, new fishing towns developed, factories for ice-making and fish processing

one hand, changes in commercial law contributed to this, which increasingly made it possible for banks and citizens to finance investments by buying shares. On the other hand, far-sighted reforms of the

insatiable thirst for energy triggered a massive rush of development. The world’s most powerful banking and industrial dynasties descended on Georgia to secure the region’s petroleum. Walter von Siemens

stores. The brothers Émile and Isaac Pereire, bitter rivals of the Rothschild bankers, founded the first investment bank, "Crédit Mobilier". At the end of the century, another push followed. Heavy industry

strong agricultural sector made more and more capital available. In addition to cooperatives, new banks were founded, primarily in Prague. A securities exchange was established in 1871, a commodities exchange

the umbrella of the "Arcelor-Mittal" group. In 1822, the "Société Générale", the first joint-stock bank, was founded and soon afterwards the Banque de Belgique. Both provided targeted investment capital [...] push began after independence in 1830. Brussels was modernised, and industrial firms settled on the banks of the Senne. Another new canal contributed to this, on which coal ships could travel from Charleroi [...] Montagne" had begun producing zinc in 1837. In the coal mines, which were largely in the hands of French bankers, production rose steadily, but at the same time the area - especially the "Borinage" in the far west

production developed in the Vorarlberg region, and in Vienna – where the Rothschilds founded the merchant bank "Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe" in 1855 – the manufacturing of rail cars and locomotives

lands of northwest Europe. In the 18th century around a thousand mills were standing alongside the banks of the River Zaan, near the trading centre of Amsterdam. They were used to process timber, flour and

In the 19th century, the entrepreneur Guillem d‘Areny-Plandolit was also an active merchant and banker. He also played an important role in the reforms of 1866 that granted the common people a modest [...] of the structure of Andorra’s economy that Julià Reig i Ribó, a son of the founder, also launched a bank and a real estate enterprise in the 1950s. In the latter half of the 20 th century a number of the [...] serves as a museum. Labour had to be recruited from Spain for its construction, roads were built, banks and department stores were founded. From the 1950s on, development acquired a momentum all its own