established in 1989, is located in a nineteenth-century textile warehouse, tells the story of the cotton industry in the valley, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the workpeople. The collection of [...] of historic machinery from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries includes examples from England, France, Spain and the United States. The museum also organises visits to local textile enterprises that

in 1844 and was followed by 38 new editions by 1937. Guides were published to France in 1852, to England in 1863, to Italy in 1860, to Norway and Sweden in 1879, to Greece in 1889 and to Spain and Portugal [...] (1874-1959). The company moved in the mid-1870s from Koblenz to the centre of the German publishing industry in Leipzig. Perhaps no company did more to encourage the habit of travelling across Europe and gaining

mill as a centre for the arts has proved to be one of the outstanding examples in England of the adaptation of an industrial building for new uses. The Baltic Mill, constructed in the 1950s, was the last

to new uses of an industrial building. The power station was one of several built in the twentieth century on the banks of the River Thames in London to use coal from north-east England that was delivered

Batawa. In 1932 a village in the Garden City style was built around a factory at East Tilbury in England. Bat’a was skilled in marketing as well as in manufacturing and his shops became familiar features [...] and rubber technology, and was a leading figure in a period of success and prosperity for Czech industry. When Tomáš Bat’a died his company employed 31,000 people, a total which increased to 65,000 in

Bauwens was an entrepreneur and industrial spy who spread new cotton manufacturing technologies from England to Belgium and France at a key point in the early Industrial Revolution. He was born in Ghent [...] 17 his father sent him to England to learn from industrialists there, and when he returned in 1789 he set up a very large tannery on modern principles. While he was in England Bauwens also saw the great [...] the cotton industry. At the age of 27 he opened his first cotton factory, which was at Passy near Paris. Very soon afterwards he opened two cotton factories at Ghent. He had seen in England the importance

huge breweries, rather like Burton-on-Trent or Tadcaster in England. The town was famous for its beer from the middle ages, and the brewing industry was stimulated by the opening of the Bavarian north-south [...] techniques to show how the culture of beer-drinking has evolved through the centuries, and how industrial-scale breweries work. The site also includes museums of baking and spices, and a celebrated restaurant

and is concerned with the social and economic history, urban, industrial and rural, of north-east England. Its most important industrial exhibits relate to the coalfield in which the museum is situated [...] Beamish, once called the North of England Open Air Museum and now ‘the living museum of the north’, occupies a site of more than 100 ha 14 km north-west of Durham City. It was established in the 1960s [...] of 1855 of a type, designed by Phineas Crowther, that was widely used in collieries in north-east England. A nearby colliery village includes a Methodist Chapel, a characteristic school of the late 19th

in Germany, particularly in the Siegerland, but in 1966 they made a lengthy tour of the industrial areas of England and South Wales in a VW camper van towing an aged caravan. They staged an acclaimed exhibition [...] and Hilla Becher (née Wobeser) transformed the ways in which we all view the monuments of past industries, showing that ruins can have dramatic and aesthetic qualities. Bernd Becher was born in the Siegerland [...] and two years later, when both were freelance photographers, began collaborating in photographing industrial monuments 1959. They married in 1961. The Bechers developed a new approaches and are regarded as

List Searching in History: The Industrial Revolution in Belgium Industrial Heritage in Belgium WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Belgium World Atlas: What are the biggest industries in Belgium? Grand Hornu. Mine and [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF BELGIUM Listen The industrial age of the European continent began in Belgium, where conditions were similarly good to those in England: coal had been mined in the valleys of [...] soon other locomotive factories were established within the iron industry of Wallonia. For over a hundred years, a flourishing industrial belt stretched from Mons and Charleroi in the west through the valleys

Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) at Lyon and Grenoble in 1981 which led to the setting up of a group responsible for establishing a national inventory of industrial heritage at the Ministry [...] Amongst his many publications, two of the most important are Industrial Heritage: a new territory (with Grace Dorel-Ferré, 1996) and Luxury Industries in France (1998) [...] Bergeron was a distinguished French scholar who did much to establish the value of the study of industrial heritage with international bodies such as ICOMOS and UNESCO. He was born in Strasbourg and studied

Aviation and its facilities are complex systems comprising flying objects, maintenance, handling and service facilities, repair yards, large-scale storehouses, administrative tracts, shops, building s

researches Berlin's industrial heritage, develops tourist attractions, designs educational formats for young and old, advises and moderates questions concerning industrial heritage in the city, supports [...] Center for Industrial Culture (bzi) is a joint institution of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and the German Technical Museum Foundation Berlin. BZI networks actors of industrial culture in Berlin [...] supports preservation and conversion with ideas, concepts and advice, offers a platform for industrial culture at conferences, in publications and event series, is involved in supra-regional and international

Berwick-upon-Tweed is an archetypal border town on the frontier between England and Scotland. Since 1482 it has been part of England and enjoyed the status of a county corporate until 1885 when for local [...] important both in military history and in the history of transport. During the sustained tension between England and Scotland during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the second half of the sixteenth century it [...] collection of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, a display entitled ‘By Beat of Drum’ managed by English Heritage which tells the story of the British infantryman, and the Berwick-upon-Tweed Museum & Art Gallery

Bessemer was a professional inventor with 129 patents across many industries. He came from a Huguenot family of printers in the south-east of England. His father, Anthony Bessemer, went to France as a young man [...] man to work for the Paris mint but returned to England during the French Revolution and began a type-foundry. After elementary school, Bessemer educated himself in his father’s workshop, experimenting with [...] iron broke easily, he decided to investigate a better material. With little knowledge of the iron industry, he tried an original idea of blowing air through molten iron in an open crucible – his ‘converter’

diversely designed panels on the wall of the blower house are an excellent starting point for industrial heritage enthusiasts and steel time travellers! Steel Time Travel in the Ruhr Area and South Westphalia [...] like this into ever new and exciting moments. They enable visitors to explore the entire history of industry - from its earliest beginnings to heavy industrialisation and all the way to these days - in a single

the workers seem tiny. Blaenavon owes its status as a cultural World Heritage Site to the sheer authenticity of its former industrial landscape. [...] small town – with a huge effect. The South Wales town of Blaenavon was once the spearhead of the industrial revolution. For 200 years everything revolved around coal and iron here in the Afon Lwyd Valley

No one can grasp a proper understanding of the industrial heritage of the West Midlands without a visit to the Back to Backs in Birmingham. Here you can see the home workshops which generated the momentum [...] between the occupiers which at one point amounted to some 80 people. In its heyday it was a hive of industry. Each house was occupied by a skilled tradesman and his family (and often a lodger or two), attracted

religious life of the community, its heritage of music, sport, education and worker organisation, and the role of shops and businesses, including the main industrial employers. There is a special display [...] Close to Blaenavon Ironworks and Big Pit in the Blaenavon World Heritage Site is the Community Museum. It is inside the impressive Workmen’s Hall, which was built in 1895 by local workers to provide them

Ancient Monument. The site is the main focus of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape which was inscribed by UNESCO in December 2000 as a World Heritage Site. In the early 19th century Blaenavon Ironworks became