the Tammerkoski river. He diversified into cotton manufacturing in 1828, and while he returned to Scotland ten years later, the company he established became one of the largest in Finland employing more

1894 by a wealthy Norwegian when a submarine cable was laid linking Iceland with the Faroe Islands, Scotland and the rest of the world. Much of the original equipment remains, and displays illustrate the epic

characterised by huge dumps of waste shale, of the kind that are called bings in the area of central Scotland which once produced shale oil.