and some of the arsenic compounds were sold as by-products. In the mid-nineteenth century some 500 people were employed at the Blaafarveværket, making it the largest industrial concern in Norway, but production

Bochnia is a town of about 30,000 people east of Kraków in southern Poland. Its salt mine, supposedly the largest in Poland, probably dates from the thirteenth century, and was once part of the royal salt

Szczecin, a city of some 400,000 people, is the capital of the Polish province of Western Pomerania, and a major seaport. Until the Second World War it was the German city of Stettin, and the principal [...] of Stoewer motor vehicles as well as examples of those built in the city during the years of the People’s Republic of Poland. There are some sophisticated interactive displays and the museum is the venue

first museum of the paper industry is in the community of Santa Maria da Feira, south of Oporto. People in the region were engaged in the making of paper from the early eighteenth century, but the last

On Glasgow Green, not far from the People’s Palace, stands one of Europe’s most colourful industrial buildings. The firm of James Templeton & Son of Glasgow was founded in 1857 and became a large-scale

The People’s Palace is a substantial three-storey sandstone building behind which is a glasshouse typical of many built in the late nineteenth century as winter gardens, where people could relax among [...] history, where artefacts, images, moving film and interactive displays tell the story of Glasgow’s people from 1750 until 2000. There is extensive coverage of trade unions and the labour movement, including [...] doon the watter ’ (down the water) on the River Clyde. One of the most prominent features of the People’s Palace is the Doulton Fountain, a 14 m. high fountain in terracotta, presented to the city after

Edgar Röhring. From 1921 the building was occupied by Dr Karl Meyer GmbH, who employed about 350 people in the 1930s. Under the DDR it was owned by a nationalised concern which ceased operation in 1991

Osten, a small community of less than 2,000 people near Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony, is separated from the nearby village of Hemmoor by the River Oste, a tributary of the Elbe. The rise and fall of the river

within the GDR and from 1947 the mine was owned by the land of Thuringia. It was employing 3,000 people in 1989, but that was its last year of full-scale production, and it closed two years later. In 1995

40 years. The museum’s displays are divided into five chronological sections. The first shows how people came to understand electricity, with the first telegraphs, batteries and electric motors. The role

The core of this museum is one of the icons of European young people in the 1950s and 60s – the Vespa scooter. The Piaggio company originated in 1884 as a ship-fitting concern at Sestri Ponente near Genoa

established in 2003 and now administers a wide-ranging programme for visitors, as well as enabling people who live in the valley to play a part in conserving their own heritage. The ecomuseum has opened

Złoty Stok is a small town of less than 3,000 people in southern Silesia, 77 km. south of Wrocław, and close to the border with the Czech Republic. Gold was first worked in the area in the early sixteenth

from 17 September 1944 until May 1945, and produced more than 300 publications. Between 40 and 50 people worked there. The works was never discovered by the occupying forces. The print works has been open

museum installed in it today tells the story of the Light Factory through the eyes of the working people. In a series of brief video clips, they vividly describe their everyday routines and the activities

the Castle Cary district of Somerset since the early nineteenth century if not earlier. In 1831 26 people in the town were engaged in its manufacture on a domestic basis. John Boyd (d 1890), a Scotsman, [...] constructed a new building housing 50 power looms in 1877 and by 1900 was employing more than 200 people. The company contracted in the twentieth century but still produces high quality fabrics for specialised

century there were six steam-powered mills in Gross-Siegharts. The industry still employed many people in the town in the 1980s, but the fall of the Iron Curtain led companies to shift production to areas

customers included makers of metallic foils and plastics. At its peak the workshop employed up to 25 people, working on lathes and other tools powered by line shafting. Endler refused to engage in war production

the sinking of the Anna colliery. The second worst mining accident in German history, in which 271 people lost their lives, occurred in Shaft II of this mine on 21 October 1930. The last pit was closed in

1920s or 1930s was the only affordable entry point to mechanised transport for most working-class people. The PS.Speicer museum at Einbeck, a small town in Lower Saxony, on the River Leine between Göttingen