marques that were made in Poland. The museum is one of the major attractions on the Krakow Industrial Heritage Route that includes 15 other important sites in the city.

Foxton Locks A unique patchwork of 18th, 19th and 20th century industrial heritage unmatched anywhere in the world, Foxton is most famous for the ruins of the Incline Plane Boat Lift, and the breathtaking [...] restoring the top and bottom approach arms. The work, with substantial contributions from the UK Heritage Lottery Fund and the East Midlands Development Agency, has been managed by British Waterways on [...] Locks Partnership. The restoration programme has increased tourism in the area, preserved local heritage, educated people about the importance of the site and benefitted the environment and its wildlife

courses and the preservation of typical regional industrial heritage. In this respect the two organisations – the "Sachzeugen der chemischen Industrie e. V." and Merseburg Technical College – enhance each [...] the planned extensions are exhibition areas on the history and development of the region’s industrial heritage, and the enlargement of the hands-on laboratories to a science centre. In this way the German [...] century natural resources like brown coal and salt deposits were attracting the first chemical industries to central Germany. Very soon a dense urban conurbation had been created to rival the economic

The Regionalverband Ruhr co-ordinates the Route of Industrial Heritage at the Ruhr.

Mining and Industrial Museum in El Entrego • The Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón • The Railway Industry Museum in Langreo The Asturian Tourist Board has set itself the aim of marketing the industrial heritage [...] other industrial enterprises, all of which contributed to making the region a pioneer in the industrialisation of Spain, alongside Catalonia and the Basque country. All these branches of industry have left [...] these industrial monuments and expressions of a bygone engineering technology are part of the landscape which they once radically transformed. Some of the sites have been turned into industrial museums

Rudnik, established in 1853, is Serbia’s oldest active brown coal mine and the oldest preserved industrial heritage site. Located in eastern Serbia, 150 km southeast of Belgrade, this small town is surrounded [...] project of rehabilitation of the site and transformation of the Museum to modern national industrial heritage centre has been started, supported by the EU and Council of Europe. [...] and mountain gorges. Senjski Rudnik is a fabulous place for interpretation of social history and industrial culture. Coal mine complex is interesting mixture of living history and still existing contemporary

Rajoleta” is a cultural heritage project to reconvert the existing structures on the old factory into a live museum, thus enabling the city of Esplugues to recover its industrial heritage and create a space [...] as “La Rajoleta” (The Little Tile), is an ever present point of reference in the area of Catalan industrial ceramics production. And this is particularly so with regard to the times of splendor of Modernism [...] space particularly oriented to industrial ceramics at the time of Modernism.

kept on with ore and coal mining trought the Roman Empire, Spanish domination and the era of the Industrial Revolution until the last mines closed at the end of the 20th century. Former mines and their remains [...] very often they are eye-catching part of breathtaking landscapes. In order to preserve this mining heritage and the natural and cultural assets associated with the former mining activity, the Geomineral,

Whitehaven is one of the most spectacular harbours in England, and was built in the eighteenth century partly for shipping coal from mines along the Cumbrian coast, but also for the use of traders to America [...] Several potteries flourished in Whitehaven from the eighteenth century, and a factory-based flax industry grew up in the town. The Barracks Mill, an iron-framed building of 1809, has been adapted as housing

Young (1741-1820) regarded Mistley in Essex as ‘one of the most interesting places to be seen in England’. The first quay was built there about 1720, but in the late eighteenth century the estate, overlooking [...] of 1776 remain of a church designed by Robert Adam (1728-92). They are now in the care of English Heritage. Moorings were provided for whaling ships, a boatyard built 32-gun frigates and Mistley became one

and it was built during the following summer by force of masons gathered from all over northern England who had spent the previous winter preparing the stone. Wade was anxious that the bridge should be [...] from the Pitilie Burn, was opened in 1898. Throughout the year it is open for tours which include a heritage display, a distillery tour and whisky tastings.

Banbury in Oxfordshire, near the borders of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, was one of England’s liveliest market towns in the nineteenth century. Much of its prosperity was due to the Oxford Canal [...] closely associated with L T C Rolt (1910-74), biographer of several of the leading engineers of the Industrial Revolution period, whose voyage of 1939 described in the book Narrow Boat began at Banbury, and

inland port where the main road from London to Manchester crossed the Trent & Mersey Canal. One of England’s first long-distance canals, the T&MC extends 150 km from the Bridgewater Canal at Preston Brook [...] mid-nineteenth century several of the warehouses were converted into corn mills. The boat-building industry flourished at Shardlow, in the nineteenth century, and several marinas built, maintain and accommodate [...] modern pleasure craft. The Salt Warehouse, the oldest canal warehouse in the village, now houses a heritage centre, where there are displays featuring the history of the canal and those who worked on it,

for millions of customers worldwide. This glorious past has left an impressive heritage: an ensemble of seven industrial monuments. Nowadays DRU Industriepark is an inspiring breeding ground for culture [...] stages of manufacture in the iron industry: from the first brainstorming to the marketable product. On their way visitors are taken back to the times when the industrial park used to be at the heart of local

In the centre of Prato there can be found an industrial heritage site of European importance: The Campolmi Textile Factory. The two-storey, faithfully restored rectangular building with its courtyard, [...] traditional costumes from all over the world illustrate the worldwide influence of the local textile industry. A special highlight is the continuously updated collection of modern textiles and fashions.

located in the east of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape WHS. The hill has a rich mining heritage and its ornate feature chimney, a reminder of its mining past, dominates the landscape for miles [...] around. The area is now a country park extending to 152 hectares where the combined natural and industrial landscapes can be fully appreciated. There are views from the elevated position (334 metres above

printed resources covers Cornish history, geography, industries, customs and highlights Cornwall’s mining heritage. It offers anyone interested in the industrial history of Cornwall an opportunity to study mining [...] buildings now contributes to the regeneration of the town which suffered from the loss of the mining industry.

which moved to a new site in 1956. There are seven principal departments. Those dealing with industrial heritage include transportation, whose collections include motor cars and railway locomotives, geology

They include a museum of wax figures, a museum of emigration and two museums of weapons. The industrial heritage of the region can best be appreciated in the Museum of Agriculture, Culture and Traditions

many aspects of the history of the region has three principal exhibits that relate to the industrial heritage. The mechanical engineering workshop of Johann Hansson was established in 1907 and used hy [...] generator is by Siemens & Schuckert, and a later turbine was by R T Gilkes and Gordon of Kendal in England.