career in property. The oldest car is a De Dion-Bouton from 1899. Many cars were acquired in poor condition, such as the Renault pickup dating from 1914 that Lundkvist brought from Paris and restored himself

ownership of the Locke family until its closure in 1953. The plant remained in remarkably good condition when a committee dedicated to its restoration was formed by the local community in 1982. The machinery

Interactive multi-media programmes and dramatic lighting help visitors to relive the harsh living conditions of the 1920s at close quarters in a specially built street scene. The visitors themselves are the

(fish quay). Visitors are able to explore the whole ship, and can gain an understanding of the hard conditions under which fishermen worked, even in relatively recent times.

ng kiln and adjoining miller‘s house. The mill has been restored and brought back into working condition in order to demonstrate the milling process, and guided tours are available. The mill machinery

opened in an early nineteenth century building in 1927, has been restored to resemble its original condition with a tiled fascia, bow windows and interior fittings of oak bearing the shields of sixteen un

They were as much subject to overcrowding as any other form of working-class accommodation, and conditions in many were squalid. The National Trust for Scotland preserves and presents a first-floor four-room

y 2,000 died as a result of the physically strenuous work, inadequate care and inhumane living conditions. However, air raids prevented completion and no submarine was ever built. In 2011, the bunker became

prefer a somewhat more comfortable life can stay on the surface and experience miners’ working conditions in a mock-up gallery. Other sites to visit include the miners’ bath house, a forge and the colliery

entire history of industrial mining in the underground galleries: from the often grueling working conditions of about 200 years ago to the automated extraction methods from the late 20th century. Aboveground

disrepair after the colliery closed in 1987, was bought by the municipality, restored to its original condition at the insistence of the civil society and opened as a museum in 1995. It is furnished in the style

Silesian coal industry. The exhibits feature mining equipment and machines as well as the living conditions of the miners and their families. Further displays address the local tradition of chinaware manufacture

other mills, some 250 men and boys (some drafted in from workhouses) worked here in often arduous conditions to produce a quarter of a million bobbins a week. Stott Park created the wooden bobbins vital to

spittoon for tuberculosis sufferers – an expressive symbol of the poverty-stricken living and working conditions in the old cities. Everything in the Hamburg Museum of Work, housed in a old rubber goods factory

takes visitors back to the "golden age" of local shipbuilding and its historical living and working conditions.

can don a miner’s helmet and lamp before descending into the underworld to find out what everyday conditions were like for the miners who once worked here. Their guides are themselves former miners. On the

copper, lead and zinc ores. All this is accompanied by vivid sound effects of everyday working conditions. The mine was inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site in 1992 – along with the former Imperial

built relatively late – shortly after 1900. For this reason it is still in an impressively good condition. Nowadays the colliery near Beringen in Limburg (Belgium) is the site of the Flemish Mining Museum

Victorian pumping station and is crammed with tools and equipment from the period, all kept in pristine condition. There are over 29 working stationary steam engines including four large pumping beam engines, the

running. Quarryman's houses have been rebuilt on site and refurnished to show the cramped living conditions of the quarrymen and their families. All this and more is contained in a spectacular introductory