, its torpedo store, its galley, its escape hatches and its crew’s cramped living quarters. The Holland I was the Royal Navy’s first submarine, built to an American design at Barrow-in-Furness in 1901

of war materials for Germany and made massive profits even though his businesses in England and Holland were sequestrated. He advocated forced labour of prisoners. After the War, he raised foreign loans

at this location was started at 1863. It was closed after few years. Then the N.V. Suikerfabriek Holland opened. It became part of the Centrale Suiker Maatschappij, the Central Sugar Company. Part of the

The city of Alkmaar in the province of Noord Holland is the principal centre of the cheese trade in Holland. Dealing in cheese now takes place at an exchange, but every Friday in the summer visitors can [...] the market in Alkmaar. There are displays illustrating cheese production on a traditional Noord Holland farm and in the factories that were built in the region from the late 19th century, and the particular

built from 1879 at Veenwouden in Friesland, a boatbuilder’s workshop of 1885 from Marken in North Holland, with its attendant slip on which vessels could be drawn from or lowered into the water, together

foundry in Cornwall, worked in the pumping station "De Cruquius", today a museum. After three years, Holland's largest inland lake had become an expanse of land, but other infrastructure projects were more

already in the 17th century biscuit was produced as food for crew on the many ships that sailed from Holland. By baking the product twice, all water is distracted from it. As a result of it, the product stays

port guarding the entrance to the Zuyder Zee (now the Ijsselmeer) at the northern tip of the North Holland peninsula. The waters of Den Helder were the assembly point for Dutch fleets trading to distant parts

clogs, row and rows of cheese blocks. Zaanse Schans could come straight out of a picture book of Holland in the 17th and 18th century. Time seems to have stopped still here. The rhythm of work is determined