This settlement was established in the years 1860-1867 for the workers of Gottessegen mine. The owners of the mine were industrialists from the line of the Donnersmarcks, who also founded the settlement
ironworkers worshipped dates from 1737 and its bell tower from 1766, while between the works and the church is a group of workers’ houses of c 1800, covered in ‘punamltamaali’ the traditional rusty-red paint of
production line of shoemaking in the 1950s, a large collection of beautiful shoes, the stories of the workers and a hall of fame of local people. It also tells the story of another local industry, making hairbrushes
access to some of the lands reclaimed in the delta of the River Po in the early 20th century, the work of the Renata Reclamation Consortium, including the substantial lagoons that were created during the
and boiler house, a set of turbines by Brown Boveri in the engine room, the control centre, the workers' locker room with factory clothing and everyday objects from the 1930s to the 1990s, a coal yard
and an engineer, M. Lelièvre. More buildings were erected on the site, which even included its own workers´ quarter. Nowadays visitors to the museum can go on an impressive guided tour which includes a d [...] history and techniques of glassmaking from the ca. 250 exquisite glass products and imaginative glass works of art. Visitors will not only feel warm in their heart when they take a tour of crystal manufacturing
labyrinth of adits, underground chambers and pits has been reactivated and is now open to visitors. The works to clear and secure it began in 1996 and even included the construction of a mine train for visitors
1930s. A film brings the history of the industrialisation of Sardinia and the salt works to life. This area of the salt works is maintained and open to visitors by the FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, [...] Vecchi reclaimed land in the Santa Gilla basin and created the saltworks. It supported over 1,000 workers in the community of Macchiareddu, with schools, medical support and recreational facilities, and
present. One of Europe’s largest chemical sites is booming here on the former site of the Hüls chemical works. All the necessary prerequisites are in place: a motorway right in front of the door, its own rail
of the industry towards the end of the 19th century. However you can still visit a building with workers apartments nearby. The brick-making factory is also in the vicinity: it has been in operation since [...] influenced by the regional industries. Beffes has a rich tradition of cement-making: the gigantic cement works owes its origins to old quarries and blast furnace plants. The 300 metre long aqueduct over the canal
century, but few were as spectacular as that at Castellar de n’Hug about 90 km north of Barcelona. The works was opened in 1904 by the Companyia General d’Asfalts i Portland, SA, formed in 1901 by the entrepreneur
Museu do Caramulo: one part was devoted by Abel to the arts – from ancient Egyptian artefacts to the works of Picasso – and the other by João to classic cars, motorcycles and bicycles. Among a dozen automobiles
textiles, historic machinery and individual stories, ranging from the workers in the Middle-Ages, the conditions experienced by factory workers in the 19th century to the closing-down of the factory in 1994. [...] has marked the Tuscan town up to the present day. The textile activity ceased trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since
the company nearby. The first buildings after the factory were the theatre, canteen, school and workers’ housing completed by 1943. The layout around the Piazza del Popolo followed the pattern of the Fascist
charcoal store and a limekiln. Blacksmiths demonstrate their work in hand forges. Visitors walk a circular trail that also includes a barracks for workers, a manager’s house and an inn. Those who want to walk
Wapping to Rotherhithe in east London, and is 23 m below the river. A shield built at the Lambeth works of Henry Maudslay (1771-1831) was used in its construction. From 1865 the tunnel was used by the East [...] in a building that housed the tunnel’s drainage pumps. It includes the Grand Entrance Hall where work on the tunnel began, and where I K Brunel nearly drowned in 1828. Brunel later organised fairs and
vehicles in the correct manner is a major part of the museum´s activities. The Bochum-Dahlhausen railway works first went into operation in 1918 as a repair workshop. A few year’s later it was given its own l
Germany. Steam locomotives range from a tramway engine made in 1882 by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) to a German Maschinenfabrik Esslingen locomotive of 1927. Electric locomotives range from 1899
existing industrial activities. Over the years, to accommodate the growing number of workers, the company built large workers' housing estates with associated utilities and social facilities. In 1975 CUF ceased
