a door into the top storey from ground level at the rear. Within the cottages are spinning wheels, hand looms and other items used in the making of woollen cloth, while at the rear are tenter posts, brought

deep in the surface of the paper. In a beautifully designed modern space it has a collection of 29 hand-operated presses and over 70 cylinder and platen presses, together with other printing equipment. [...] offers workshops in typesetting and letterpress printing, handwriting and fine bookbinding, using hand-operated presses and movable type. People interested in producing a page of print, a business card

graduation tower still works: indeed it is still open to visitors. Here they can witness at close hand the mineral solution dripping down the wooden wall and breathe in the healthy vapours hanging like

1904 this number increased to six. At the end of the First World War they were all confiscated and handed over to the "Societe Anonyme des Forges et des Acieries de Nord et Lorraine". By 1965 they had been

nearly 1,000 textile items collected by the Warner designers for inspiration over the years, including hand beaded caps from Africa, embroidered kimonos and a stitched coat from Kazakhstan. The Archive is housed

precious panelled ceiling, and an interior full of blank copper brewery kettles, valves and instruments, hand wheels and shining pipelines. The bottles still carry the family coat-of-arms of the Princes of Promnitz

The Berlin underground was one of the first projects of its kind in Germany. The museum provides a hands-on experience of many historic artefacts commemorating one century of underground history. Volunteers

the boat is particularly impressive. You get the impression that you are holding the rudder in your hand yourself. This can only be beaten by a trip on the Oscar Huber, the last remaining steam barge on

Gatow was established in 1934 as part of the secret rearmament programme of the Third Reich. It was handed to the British occupying forces after the allied occupation in 1945, and about a third of the flights

Europe at the time remained in operation until 1996. Initially, production was carried out mainly by hand until part of the operation was electrified in the 1950s. Since 2005, cultural and creative industries

colliers as closely as if they were one of them. The washrooms, the lamp room, the changing rooms, worn hand rails and well-trodden steps look just as they did on 2nd June 1994 when the pit closed for ever.

The Katowice College of Individual Interdisciplinary Studies lets students individually design their curriculum. To do this, they choose one (or more) leading study programme, which can be expanded to

the Bochum suburb of Dahlhausen arouses a lot of nostalgia. On Sundays there is always a hand-lever trolley at hand on which to drive up and down the huge site to inspect the points, water tower, turntable

heathlands, and most cottages were roofed with reed thatch. Sheds were constructed to accommodate hand looms. General van der Bosch is commemorated by the Hoeve van der Bosch, the principal building at

workings 100 m below the surface, many of which are narrow and difficult of access, and were worked with hand tools. It is also possible to view the mining landscape of the region from the top of the mine headstock

first traces the history of paper and then shows a range of printing equipment. These include early hand-carved wooden printing blocks, Gutenberg’s movable type, and Voirin’s 1823 cylinder press, which is

endured were appalling by today’s standards, yet each worker would produce thousands of nibs each day by hand, using fly presses to cut and shape strips of steel. The history of the Pen Trade is told through [...] used to promote steel nibs at exhibitions also produces a fascinating display. You can also try your hand at Calligraphy – steel pens are still used for this purpose -and some of the few surviving companies

building designed in 1907 by the architect Barry Parker. You can visit Barry Parker’s office, filled with hand-made Arts and Crafts furniture and enjoy the temporary exhibitions programme, which explores the social

Middle Ages, when nails were forged by hand on the banks of the Meuse, and continuing with mechanisation powered by water wheels or animals. Equipment such as hand forges, mechanical presses and examples

they operated in 1975 and a video that traces all stages of the manufacturing process: mouth-blowing, hand-carving, sand etching, gilding and enamelling. An exhibition tells the story of the glass and crystal