This is the first dedicated World Heritage Centre in the UK and is the focal point for the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site. The Visitor Centre combines video presentations, interactive [...] wanting to know more about the features that make up the 33,000 hectares of heritage landscape around the Centre. The World Heritage Centre will be housed in the carefully restored Grade II* St. Peter’s School [...] to explain the leading role that Blaenavon and South Wales played in the formative years of the Industrial Revolution. The centre will be a fun and educational place to visit for families, educational groups

remaining mine in the region. Who descends here by cage, is able to follow almost the entire history of industrial mining in the underground galleries: from the often grueling working conditions of about 200 years

potash has been a major industry of that part of Germany west of Magdeburg and east of the Harz Mountains since the mid-19th century. Some of the best monuments of the industry are at Bleicherode, a town [...] town of less than 7,000 people with a rich heritage of timber framed-buildings, in the southern Harz on the River Wipper, 17 km south-west of Nordhausen. Deposits of potash were recognised in the vicinity [...] potash mines closed in 1990, and parts of the mines and the processing complex have been declared industrial monuments.

be seen as part of a growing nationwide awareness in the United Kingdom that the nation’s industrial heritage was under threat. The Society’s object was to collect examples of characteristic steam engines

r sights in European industrial heritage, its two towering engine houses hanging half way down a cliff above Atlantic waves. The site is part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage site. The nineteenth-century [...] for collecting arsenic. The location is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site.

more than a century. He also produced publications that are of continuing value to historians of industry and transport. Bradshaw was born at Pendleton near Manchester and trained as an engraver and printer [...] published his 1:31680 scale Map of the Canals, Rivers, Rail Roads &c in the Midland Counties of England , which he dedicated to Thomas Telford (1757-1834), which was followed in 1833 by tables of the levels [...] from c .1900 by Henry Blacklock. The Bradshaw timetables remained essential works of reference in England, and publications about continental Europe multiplied. The company produced a guide to Belgium in

British canal engineer in the early part of the Industrial Revolution. He was responsible for a network of waterways that became the arteries of Britain’s industrial regions and linked its principal navigable [...] began the great age of canals as the arteries to transport the fuel, raw materials and products of industrial Britain. This was the 66-km Bridgewater Canal, completed in 1761, which carried coal to Manchester [...] north to London in the south. Several canals made up his scheme to join the four great rivers of England, the ‘Grand Cross’. This project was led by landowners and industrialists and financed by shareholders

1979 was a self-funding operation and in 1983 became a charitable trust, the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust. Its vehicles were displayed at Studley, a former agricultural college in Warwickshire [...] km. south of Coventry, has its origins in the tortuous takeovers that characterised the British industry in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. British Leyland Motor Holdings brought together in 1968 the British Motor [...] Bentley, Aston Martin and Morgan, as well as the products of Japanese companies with factories in England. The museum offers an archives service to the owners of classic cars. It holds a large collection

Brochure "European Industrial Heritage: The International Story" Listen From the very beginning, industrialisation has crossed borders - it has never been a purely national phenomenon. From the mid-18th [...] unaware of this. The close-knit network of European industrial regions, which continue to inspire and strengthen each other, is something that most industrial monuments and attractions today do little to show [...] which recognises the network's contribution to the conservation and presentation of Europe's industrial heritage. This funding has enabled the production of this brochure, which aims to encourage ERIH sites

"EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE. THE INTERNATIONAL STORY" ERIH'S BROCHURE MAKES THE EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS OF INDUSTRIALISATION VISIBLE Listen From the very beginning, industrialisation has crossed borders [...] unaware of this. The close-knit network of European industrial regions, which continue to inspire and strengthen each other, is something that most industrial monuments and attractions today do little to show [...] which recognises the network's contribution to the conservation and presentation of Europe's industrial heritage. This funding has enabled the production of this brochure, which aims to encourage ERIH sites

with the onset of the revolutionary wars, emigrated to the United States in 1793, and settled in England in 1799. Between 1805 and 1812 he built the block-making works in the dockyard at Portsmouth, where [...] France from 1822, where he acquired a taste for the Egyptian style in architecture. On returning to England he worked for his father on the construction of the Thames Tunnel in east London, where he was seriously [...] and a full member in 1837. In the early 1830s he sought work on several projects in north-east England but worked principally on the improvement of the docks in Bristol. In 1833 he became involved in

innovations in the fields of civil engineering and manufacturing. Born in France, Brunel settled in England, where his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, became the most famous of all Victorian engineers. Although [...] went on to design several sawmills and develop machines for the textiles, printing and boot-making industries among others. Nevertheless, he was imprisoned for debts and was released only after political [...] interventions. Brunel’s other achievements were in civil engineering. He manufactured in England a suspension bridge designed to withstand hurricanes on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean

the idea of the cotton factory from England to mainland Europe. In 1771, Richard Arkwright built the first water-powered mill for spinning cotton at Cromford in England. This developed the idea of the factory [...] Ratingen, in North-Rhine Westphalia in 1783-4 he gave it the name Cromford. The building is now an industrial museum. Brügelmann grew up in a family of merchants at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. [...] the innovations by Arkwright he decided to try to copy them. His friend Carl Albrecht Delius made industrial espionage visits to Britain in 1781 and 1782 to draw plans, get copies of machines and recruit

main line locomotives from the Great Western Railway, an early fireless locomotive of 1916, and industrial shunting engines from various makers. A large collection of historic coaches and wagons is conserved [...] boiler, built for Egyptian State Railways in 1951 by the Metro-Cammel and Sentinel companies in England. The unit was re-patriated in 1985.

ride a narrow gauge railway that once connected the clay depots to the factory. Not least the industrial heritage site boasts a large collection of brick making technology as well as bricks, tiles, land drains [...] the answers to these questions at Bursledon Brickworks in Southampton. The site which is now an industrial museum tells the whole story from the digging of the clay to the firing of the bricks. The most

company) was founded in 1912 by Arvid Wikstrom (1886-1937), who had gained experience of the industry in England and Germany. The factory, on the sea shore, in the Salmisaari area on the west side of Helsinki [...] The cable factory in Helsinki characterises the changes that took place in industry in Finland, and in other European countries in the course of the 20th century. All cables used in Finland had to be imported

ways to mitigate against wider and long-term impacts on the protection and promotion of our industrial heritage. We are calling for papers on how sites can successfully rise to the challenge of the “new [...] and effective responses which can provide inspiration for all concerned with the future of the heritage sector. At present, it is proposed that, subject to Covid restrictions, the conference will be held [...] held on Thursday 7th October 2021 as a hybrid event; in-person at the ERIH Anchor Point, Museum of Industry, Ghent, Belgium and online. A decision on whether the in-person part of the event will be able to

Speakers who are interested in contributing to this question – even from outside the industrial heritage community – are cordially invited to submit an abstract of their presentation in English to the

enthusiasts. Re-christened the Cambridge Museum of Technology which now is the home of the city’s industrial heritage, from the steam age to semiconductors. It contains a variety of original pumps and boilers

In the centre of Prato there can be found an industrial heritage site of European importance: The Campolmi Textile Factory. The two-storey, faithfully restored rectangular building with its courtyard, [...] traditional costumes from all over the world illustrate the worldwide influence of the local textile industry. A special highlight is the continuously updated collection of modern textiles and fashions.