Millions of tons of American cotton passed through its dockyards on their way to the booming English textile mills. In its turn Liverpool exported a broad selection of British factory goods, sometimes even

estuary of the River Dee. For many centuries the stream powered industrial concerns concerned with textiles, iron-making, paper-making and the processing of non-ferrous metals. In the late 18th century the

in the west of the Netherlands during the last 150 years. The museum starts with an exhibition of textile machines and a metal processing workshop dating back to around 1900. A steam engine and a range of

day. It is located in the town of Twente in the West of Holland, which once boasted a flourishing textile industry. One of the few remaining factories from this time now houses the museum. Spinning engines

The site contains a restored worker's house, a classroom dating back to Owen's time and working textile machines. A ride takes visitors back on a journey covering three centuries and in a dramatic audio-visual

world-famous. Hockney was born in the Northern industrial city of Bradford. And Salts Mill, an old textile factory, was built in Shipley just to the north of Bradford. Something unheard of occurred here in [...] between everyday life and leisure. The person who planned and financed the whole project was a rich textile manufacturer by the name of Sir Titus Salt and his model village, which is still inhabited, has survived

ago? How did independent spinners gradually become wage-earners in textile mills? What were the reasons for the decline of the textile industry at the end of the 1950s? The museum will give you the answers [...] 19th century textile mill. Inside things are anything but elaborate. Historical machines work alongside ultra-modern equivalents and steam-driven looms clatter away beside computerised textile machines. For [...] Tilburg in the Province of North Brabant has traditionally been an important centre of the Dutch textile industry. Its mills were one of the major employers in the region until the 1960s. After that thousands

Britain is now an exciting museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history of the local textile industry at first hand. In the offices they can eavesdrop on the clerks. Later they can travel alongside

When Friedrich Engels, the son of a Wuppertal textile manufacturer, visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In [...] electricity was produced that the whole of Engelskirchen was able to benefit from it. The result was a textile factory which also functioned as an electricity station, electricity supplies to an increasing number [...] equipment speaks volumes. An electrically driven ring spinner recalls the turbulent times in the textile works. Until 1924 the spinning mill provided enough power to cover its own needs. It was finally

museum thus becomes a trip back into the history of crafts in the Märkisch Sauerland region. Paper, textiles, and above all cutting instruments are the major craft industries in the region. For centuries a

created its textile samples and fashion collections. In the testing laboratory visitors can see how incubators, heavy metal apparatus and plastic equipment were used to test manufactured textiles for durability [...] 150 years. The museum on a part of the site is now in the process of extending its exhibition on textile manufacturing. A number of small companies have set up business in and around the museum site – new

the Rhineland Industrial Museum. Johann Gottfried Brügelmann, an extremely wealthy merchant and textile magnate from Wuppertal at the end of the 18th century, learnt how to profit from saving time at a

small adjacent “towns”, two of which - Barmen and Elberfeld – were to become strongholds of the textile industry. Some time later yarn processing – dying, weaving and braiding - also took root in Wuppertal [...] the consciousness of one of the leaders of the struggle for social reform, the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer by the name of Friedrich Engels. The Wuppertal Museum of Industrial Culture is split

like the overhead railway. Thus passengers are able to glide over a crowded city landscape of old textile mills, residential areas and squares most of which sprang up in the early industrial era. A trip

for Crittall Windows, and exhibits that focus on the importance of both the Courtauld and Warner textile firms. Braintree Museum is also proud to celebrate the work of John Ray (1627 - 1705)., widely regarded [...] as well as research facilities with access to local archaeology, local history, photographic and textile archives.

trade waste for fuel as this contained a high percentage of combustible materials such as coal, textiles, paper and bones as well as general waste. The importance of the building has been recognised by

industrial economy of Norwich was built on the diverse mixture of textiles, shoe manufacture, food production and pharmaceuticals. Textiles were an important medieval industry in East Anglia employing thousands [...] the most important regional centre of the textile industry, Norwich was badly hit by the expansion of powered looms in the north and west of England. Some textile mills were constructed in Norwich to compete [...] has a pedigree dating to the eighteenth century. Other sites to visit in Norwich include former textile factories, brush works and vinegar works together with important civil engineering structures such

the museum. In the basement, where the textile tools are located, an entire production line is switched on, illustrating the century-old history of the Saxon textile industry by automatically spinning, knitting

production of uniforms and woollen yarn cloth. Nowadays there are only a very firms still active in the textile sector. But some „mementos“ remain. The Wool and Fashion Tourist Centre (CTLM) has now been set up [...] „Out in the town of wool“ is the name of a walking tour leading past historic buildings and old textile machines placed along the waterside. And, for those with enough time and energy there is the „House

paper industry, there is a complete museum dedicated to the material. The fact that paper, alongside textiles and metals, played such an important role in Düren for several hundred years can be principally