war, and jets from the Cold War including an F16, Lockheed CF 104 Starfighter and a NorthAmerican F86-D Starfighter. Of particular importance is a small collection of Danish KZ aircraft made between 1937

most countries of Western Europe. The Morsø Iron Foundry was established in 1853 by N A Christensen (d 1914), formerly book keeper at a foundry at nearby Thisted. He took into partnership an expert iron

produced by the company included the Wal flying boat of 1924, the Merkur airliner of 1925, and the D15 ‘flying pencil’ of 1935, one of the Luftwaffe’s principal bombers during the Second World War. Production

The nailworks at Creil in the département of l’Oise was established in 1888 by Théodor Rivierre (d 1900). By 1914 it had some 400 employees, but there were only just over a hundred in the 1960s. It continues

earlier. In 1831 26 people in the town were engaged in its manufacture on a domestic basis. John Boyd (d 1890), a Scotsman, began to make horsehair in Castle Cary in 1837 and in 1851 built his first factory

twentieth century became the wool spinning factory of the Theillot family. It is now called the Centre d’interprétation de la laine (centre for the interpretation of wool). It retains the machines that transformed

used for spinning by day and for grinding grain by night, but in 1828 Pierre-Emmanuel Hippolyte Boyer (d 1876) began to use the waterwheels to drive looms for weaving. Like most mills in the region this was

La Motte d’Aveillons is a village in the department of Isère, which now has a population of less than 2,000 although around 3,000 people lived there during the first six decades of the twentieth century [...] the region began in the seventeenth century and concluded in the late 1990s, but workings at La Motte d’Aveillons commenced during the First Empire, and continued until 1956. The project to establish a museum

km through the Pay d’Auge in Normandy through an area renowned for its cider and for Calvados, where producers are entitled to the ‘Appellation d’Origine Controlée des Cidres du Pay d’Auge’. The route has [...] medieval fair is staged every summer. There is a small ecomuseum featuring gardens, Les Jardins du Pays d’Auge, at Cambremer.

The villages of Bois-d’Amant in the Haut Jura lies between the Lac des Rousse and Lake Joux and, more pertinently, between the forests of Risoux and Noirmont which provided the spruce trees which were [...] the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1929 some 500 of the 1,170 inhabitants of Bois-d’Amant were engaged in woodworking. One of the specialities of the region was the production of wooden

Republic. It stood on the site of a charcoal-fuelled furnace built by Charles Coote, Earl of Mountrath (d 1661), that was destroyed during the wars of the 1640s, but revived and worked with charcoal until 1768

Apart from Thiers (F) and Solingen (D), Albacete ranks among Europe’s most important cutlery manufacturing centers. The industrial quartes beyond the old city gates and in Madrigueras, a small town to

The Printing Workshop – also called Imagerie d’Épinal – is part of the Cité des Images complex in Épinal, which celebrates the city’s special history in the reproduction of colour images. The workshop

the clay there ran out, the processes were gradually relocated between 1913 and 1923 to Saint-Martin-d'Aubigny. Due to competition from other building materials and the start of the Second World War, the

steam and diesel. The first hydroelectric power station on the site was bult by the company Cardoso d'Argent in 1902 to supply electricity in the ancient city of Tomar. The plant was damaged in a flood

but is conserved, and interpreted with displays about its history and a working model. The Crystal d’Arques glassworks and the preserved railway, the Chemin de Fer Touristique de la Vallée de l’Aa are

present. Models show a gasworks and a tram while multimedia offer interactive resources including 3-d historical views of the city.

Santorini is an island in the Cyclades in the Southern Aegean Sea. The island produces crops of large cucumbers, Spanish vetchling, capers and aubergines. Cherry tomatoes cultivated there from the lat

The ironworks in the Pays Loire Val d'Abois were once known all over the world. The area manufactured weapons for the French Revolution, pipelines for Madrid and Paris, and components for building the [...] disused - in La Guerche sur l'Aubois is currently being restored. Torteron in the north of the Val d'Abois shows the extent to which urban planning was influenced by the regional industries. Beffes has

Eperon d’Or (the ‘golden spur’) is a museum in a factory of fine-quality shoes in the traditional centre of Belgian shoemaking. The company was started by Emiel Vandommele in 1863. It became the official