Archive A varied collection of objects, pictures and ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still
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
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
demonstrations by traditional hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry of generations of quarry workers. Much of the site still looks like it did in the 19th century. The gigantic waterwheel that once [...] forges and an iron and brass foundry. Even the narrow gauge railway that linked the quarry with the works is still running. Quarryman's houses have been rebuilt on site and refurnished to show the cramped
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 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
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
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.
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
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
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
Timothy Hackworth, builder of Sans Pareil, a competitor in the Rainhill Trials, Hackworth established a works at Shildon in 1826 that originally built locomotives, but which became the main wagon-building plant [...] the Hackworth family, an iron merchant’s warehouse of the 1820s that was associated with the wagon works and a range of coal drops characteristic of the North Eastern Railway.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
Kainuu region shows how farmhouses in forest areas traditionally kept open house for many itinerant workers, loggers, reindeer herders, hunters and migrant farm labourers.
