a province of the Habsburg Empire, and German remains the everyday language. Visitors are able to enter the Ridnaun mine, one of the oldest and one of the highest in the Alps, and view displays of numerous

twentieth century mine, where, after viewing an introductory audio-visual programme, visitors can enter the galleries and see reconstructed working scenes. The surface buildings, including the lamp room

15,000 to 18,000 people. Following the Second World War, however, the cutlery industry in Thiers entered a time of economic decline. In the 1980s, the exeptionally designed pocket knife ‘Le Thiers’ was

gallery and shop in the station buildings of 1909. The highlight of a visit to the museum is to enter the two wartime tunnels which retain their equipment.

more than half of which were exported. For many years it had made only motorcycles, but in 1957 re-entered the car market with the Prinz model . NSU was one of only three companies to market motor cars with

Europe’s most important main lines. The last station in Germany through which trains pass before entering Austria is at Freilassing, where, in 1902-05 the Bavarian railway authority built a locomotive depot

ng industry from the 1800s to 1963. See the world’s first commercial ship model experiment tank. Enter the world of the Victorian ship designer and find out how to design your own ship. Test different

salt and iron. One of them, the Clock Warehouse of 1780 which has a large central arch for boats to enter and unload, was restored in 1979. When railway competition led to a decline in the carriage of sundries

a visitor centre where visitors can register for guided tours which is essential if they wish to enter the Lock Gruva or the ironworks. The centre also provides guidance on nature trails and mountain bike

games manufacture. All cards are handmade from the idea to the finish. Once in while you also can enter a weekend workshop for typography or letterpress.

a hill, a fact which made it easier to charge the shaft with the necessary material. Visitors can enter the “charge” area where ore and charcoal were carefully collected and apportioned and mixed with clay

to prospect for minerals on the waste tips. The fourth option is a three-hour tour of the museum, entering workings 50 m below the surface, approached by a steep adit, for which boots and waterproof clothing

Keswick. It continued to supply ballast, aggregate and road stone until its closure in 1982. Visitors enter the quarry riding on a 610 mm gauge train over a distance of 800 m. Vintage excavators and other machines

but he only stayed for a short time. Christensen retired in 1887 a year after K E Messerschmidt entered the partnership. Messerschmidt took the business forward and erected new buildings in 1913. The company

stages between 1898-1916 as the mine developed and grew. As a cultural achievement, the housing was entered in the national register of historic monuments in 1995.

with narrow shafts and a large scale model of and early twentieth century mine that visitors can enter. Films showing miners at work are shown, and the museum displays some large hydraulic machines used

80 m long, which was the last to be worked in Turda. Access was by 172 steps but visitors can now enter it by an elevator. The main feature of the Terezia Mine where work stopped in the 1880s is an underground [...] 8 m deep, with an island created by dumping salt waste. The Room of Crystals can be seen but not entered by visitors. It is notable for its remarkable display of stalactites. The Gizela Mine has been adapted

from Skagen which was sheltering from storms, but their implied threat did deter Allied ships from entering the Baltic. The guns were manned by 118 men of a Naval Artillery Battalion, but contingents of other

paper-making over several centuries. In 1801 Barthélémy de la Lombardière de Canson (1774-1859) entered the company, which from 1807 was known as Mongolfier-Canson. In 1820 he installed a paper-making

by Newson Garrett in 1846. It had its own branch railway line that reached here from Saxmundham entering the maltings through the central arch beneath clock tower and cupola. Newson was the younger brother