Leicester’s industrial museum is situated in a sewage pumping station of 1891 on the north side of the city, where the original engines, four 200 hp beam engines on the Woolf compound system, built by

viaduct by the Manchester – Leeds railway. Saddleworth Museum illustrates the history of the textile industry and other aspects of the parish.

of printed cotton goods, and subsequently became a leading centre of the textile and engineering industries. The museum of printing on fabrics began with the establishment of an archive of fabric designs

The oldest buildings in the adjacent housing estate date back to the 18th century. The oldest industrial building is the former charge house built in 1750.

n of industrial sectors is unique. The Hlubina colliery produced coal that was coked next door to fuel the blast furnaces of the neighbouring ironworks. Today a new city arose from the industrial wasteland

collection illustrates the development of regional peat mining from its origins to the beginning of industrial peat extraction in the early 20th century, including the environmental impact on the flora and

then and left exactly as it was at the time. Now it is one of the seven sites belonging to the LVR Industrial Museum. Supplemented by an exhibition in a new building built next door, the museum explains how

Ferrería itself has turned to be a museum telling the story of the pioneers of the Spanish steel industry. Original machines and their replicas show visitors how the pig iron obtained in the blast furnaces [...] historical context is illustrated by a large model that traces the development of the regional mining industry from its beginnings in 1830 to the closure of the last pit in 1991.

preserved as an industrial monument and has been accessible to visitors since 1995 as part of a monument trail complete with information boards. The museum concentrates on the industrial, cultural and social [...] green fields on the boundaries of the city of Bochum. In 1973 the continuing crisis in the coal industry spelt the end for the colliery, despite the fact that shaft II had been rebuilt to become the main [...] social history of the region, with special emphasis on immigration. From the 1870s onwards, major industrial plants like the Hannover colliery could only meet the huge demand for workers by systematically

can find the answers to all these questions on the historic brickworks site of the Westphalian Industrial Museum in Lage. The brickworks are situated in the heart of the Lippe region that was once renowned

their families is the primary theme of the exhibition at this, the central site of the Westphalian Industrial Museum. The one thing you cannot do here is travel underground. The pit has been filled in on safety [...] you are free to visit the seven other fascinating museum sites administered by the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture.

today part of the Landschaftsverband (regional authority) of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) Museums of Industrial Culture, was regarded as a technological masterpiece. The old engine house offers a short introduction

Walking the streets of Norrköping is like a promenade through 400 years of industrial history. The town centre is literally scattered with former factories. Most of them were built between 1850 and 1920 [...] museum's visitors coming to see the exhibitions, libraries, and workshops, thus looking into how the industrial society affected people's lives over the past 100 years. People are also focused in the Town Museum

when the Smithy or the huge engines are at work and you can be transported back to East Anglia´s industrial past. East Anglian firms such as Garrett´s, Burrell´s, Paxman´s, Boby, Smyth and Fison are represented

in size that takes visitors on a virtual trip through more than 3.000 years of the region’s iron industries, focusing on the heyday in the 19th and 20th centuries when skillfully casted fountains, statues

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

The Villa Petrolea contains a museum of the oil industry in the mansion of the Nobel family. When the Nobels from Sweden invested at Baku in 1879 the area was environmentally degraded and called ‘the black

areas. Although industry is the main activity, and its industrial heritage is wide, As Pontes features a large variety of natural, cultural and heritage resources. The town's industrial heritage can get [...] walking or cycling an itinerary along the most representative points of the industrial landscape: the 'Ruta de la experiencia industrial' offers a short circular route (1 hour walking) and a slightly longer [...] Pontes is the venue of the biggest power production in Spain and consequently makes it a significant industrial core. To generate energy, the thermal power plant used lignite, which was extracted from the n

established in Siglufjördur in 1910. The Herring Era Museum illustrates the importance of the herring industry in the early and mid-20th century, and consists of three principal buildings, constructed or re-erected

during the quaternary period approximately 12,000 years ago. The local grindstone and millstone industry manufactured the key product for grinding large quantities of grain to outstanding quality. The