in Burton-on-Trent in 1899 can still power the mash mill and sack hoist, but is no longer able to work the pumps. This is a rare survival of a type of brewery that could be found in most English towns
the city of Darmstadt acquired the building from the company Donges Stahlbau GmbH. After renovation work was carried out, it was opened in 1996 as a house of industrial heritage by the association “Haus
in 2006. It was developed by a voluntary association with support from the local authorities. The works produced bricks, roof tiles and fine architectural ceramics until 1982. The first brickworks of 1870
Darlington Railway, opened in 1825, and the location from 1863 until 1966 of the principal engineering works of the North Eastern Railway. The Head of Steam Museum comprises North Road Station, opened in 1842 [...] once part of the Stockton & Darlington, the adjacent goods shed and the nearby Hopetown Carriage Works. The museum opened as the Darlington Railway Museum in 1975. Exhibits include George Stephenson’s
Pyrenees in France. The 300 m² museum shows the history of the hat industry in Espéraza, which provided work for around 2000 people in over 20 factories at the time of industrialisation. The museum focuses on
World Heritage Site in 2002. After falling into disrepair it is now well-maintained. The restoration work has been carried out under the auspices of the Centre Européen des Ballons et Dirigeables de Chal
of industrialisation in Finland. In the foundry hall, all the machines are still in place and the workers' overalls hang on the hooks as if time had stood still and they were expected back at any moment
century the valley was celebrated for its Arkwright-style cotton spinning mills, and for battery works making sheet and bolts from copper, smelted in Lancashire and Swansea from ores mined at Parys Mountain [...] valley in which the remains of a succession of dams and the foundations of cotton mills and copper works have been preserved.
building materials such as tiles, bricks and delicate architectural components. It employed up to 40 workers. Later it made more basic objects such as drainage pipes. It closed in 1972. The last owner, François
magnificent barrel-vaulted glass hall, 240 metres long. A stone façade in Beaux-Arts style featured works by leading sculptors. The interiors were an exercise in Art Nouveau. The exposition site covered 112
of the country's largest coal mines. The founder of this neoclassical complex, which includes a workers' residential area with over 400 houses and the stately mansion of the factory owners, features as
life in the factory around 1900. And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock
military vehicles and tractors as well as themed exhibits such as petrol pumps. A blacksmith creates works of art from iron and visitors can take a ride on a miniature railway in the garden.
which you can take a look inside the furnace, see the bellows and imagine the work required to stoke the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and working conditions [...] foundry industry. The museum complex consists of the Foundry Museum, the Högfors Blast Furnace and the Workers' Museum. The Foundry Museum shows the various stages in the history of the foundry industry, especially [...] conditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several old houses are furnished as workers' homes from different decades.
of yesteryear on original machines: Drill hammers, rocker shovel and LHD loaders recount the hard work of iron ore mining and the miners' vital team spirit. Once the ore was mined, the historic surface
Initially, pattern designs and printing rolls were imported from other parts of Europe. The own design work began in the 1930s, and the studio department started at the factory in 1951. From 1934, the Forssa
charcoal and ore, carpenters’ and blacksmiths’ shops, offices, the dwellings for workers, the owner’s mansion, a chapel and a works school. The later blast furnaces of firebrick were dismantled but the furnace
Fiskars 78 km west of Helsinki by Peter Thorwöste has had a continuous history since that time and its work is carried on by the Fiskars Corporation. From 1822 it was managed by Johan Julin (d 1853) who developed [...] to the furnaces, the forge and the machine shops, and establishing good living conditions for the workers. Finland’s first machinery workshop was built at Fiskars in 1837. The first Finnish steam engine [...] culture of the ironworks from the seventeenth century to the present, and the living conditions of the workers at various dates. During the summer in the Fiskars Museum, the scent of freshly baked bread, spun
Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of Tampere. A large 1650 hp Sulzer steam engine with an 8 m flywheel is preserved in the museum.
