exploring issues such as life on the river vessels and education for boat people. Artefacts on display include plans, photographs, objects dredged from the river and scale-models of barges, a shipyard [...] The River Mass or Meuse through France, Belgium and the Netherlands is one of the most important inland waterways of Europe. Maasbracht became the largest inland port in the Netherlands. The museum tells [...] tells the stories of the river and the Juliana Cana (completed 1935), shipping companies, the sand and gravel industries and pleasure boating. The changes in the navigation of the Maas are explored from
by the Coalbrookdale company to store iron products ready for shipment down the River Severn. The naturally navigable river was a vital trade route, connecting the Shropshire coalfield to the Atlantic port [...] These ‘plateways’, with L-shaped tram-plates, came into the warehouse and out the other side to the river boats; lines can be seen in the brick floors. The warehouse was stylishly designed by the architect [...] been removed for safekeeping. Following conservation in 2024, the displays are made to cope with the river coming into the building. They introduce the history of the area and the warehouse.
four great rivers of England, the ‘Grand Cross’. This project was led by landowners and industrialists and financed by shareholders. It included a canal from the Mersey estuary to the river Trent, the [...] waterways that became the arteries of Britain’s industrial regions and linked its principal navigable rivers – the Severn, the Trent, the Mersey and the Thames. Brindley was from a farming family in Derbyshire [...] completed in 1761, which carried coal to Manchester. He designed a stone aqueduct 180-m long over the River Irwell that was a wonder of the age. This success led to other canal schemes. He consulted on projects
brickwork, stands astride the River Marne which powered its Girard turbines. The design of the workers’ housing was influenced by model industrial settlements in Britain. The River is crossed by a single-span
across the Neretva river before the 16th century. The city’s outstanding monument is the Stari Most (Old Bridge), a semi-circular stone arch, 28 m long and 21 m above the waters of the river. It was built in [...] from the highest rooms of the tower. Local men still follow the ancient tradition of diving into the river for money from the bridge.
stations on other rivers across Spain with the aim of providing electricity for key industrial regions without the need for a national grid. They supplied Madrid from a station in the river basin of the Tajo [...] was approached by Eduardo Aznar y Tutor, who owned rights to exploit water in the catchment of the river Ebro, which flows east from the Basque country to Catalunya. The result was the creation of the first
with lead-mining in the Wirksworth region of Derbyshire, and with a scheme to make navigable the River Derwent in that county. From 1629 until 1637 he was engaged in the drainage of the Great Fen or Bedford [...] Bedford Level in the Cambridgeshire Fens, where he was responsible for building the Old Bedford River and the Forty Foot Drain, waterways that remain crucial components of the drainage system that has made [...] the execution of Charles I, and between 1649 and 1652 directed the excavation of the new Bedford River, draining some 16,000 ha of land. From 1653 he served as ambassador of Lord Protector Cromwell to
around 1900 until the 1960s. The forestry and papermaking company Tornator began a factory on the River Vuoksi in south-east Finland in 1895. It built 20 apartment houses in distinctive timber architecture [...] for community activities. The houses fell out of use and most were demolished in the 1960s but the river-side site with two remaining buildings was given to the city of Imatra. The museum opened in 1975
In a green park beside the River Charente in Rochefort is the Royal Ropeworks. The magnificent building, 374 m long, was built in 1666 for the navy of King Louis XIV. It was part of the Royal Arsenal, [...] building shows plain stone walls on the city side but has expensive architectural decoration facing the river. In 1985, the South Wing became an interpretation centre for the sea. The main part of the ropeworks
connection – was completed in 1847. Up till then the River Emscher still contained fish and crabs and the occasional windmill turned lazily along river banks that were full of reeds. All around was a thinly [...] railway network expanded and the population in the area exploded. The rivers were straightened up and lined with concrete: the River Emscher in particular was officially destined to conduct waste industrial [...] the wild flowers and mountain plants [and the] Sabbath stillness". Then coalmining arrived and the River Rhondda became "a dark, turgid, and contaminated gutter [ ]. The hills have been stripped of their
wheels are connected to the ceiling of the train. 12 metres below flows the River Wupper. The railway only leaves the river in the West near Vohwinkel where it sweeps above the streets for somewhat more [...] that the city itself had no alternative but to expand along its length and follow the course of the river like the overhead railway. Thus passengers are able to glide over a crowded city landscape of old [...] connection between the two ends of the long and winding city. Since most of it was built over the river it also took up very little valuable building space and saved an immense amount of expense in buying
traffic. He also levies a Berlin customs duty. The city's location between the Oder and the Elbe river favours lively traffic on the waterways. Berlin becomes a trading city. At the beginning of the 20th [...] Lusatia provides heat and electricity. But companies also appreciate a production location on Berlin's rivers and canals. Materials and finished products are shipped by the ton on Berlin's waterways. An exhibition
wooded setting next to the river. In 1867, Luxembourg was guaranteed neutrality by international treaty, and the following year the brothers opened another factory, still on the River Alzette and in the duchy [...] established a woollen factory nearby at Schläifmille, on the site of a flour mill powered by the River Alzette. They imported wool through Antwerp and Marseille and marketed cloth and knitwear widely,
1812, as was Reden, in the construction of the 46 km Kłodnica Canal built 1792-1812 from Kózle on River Oder to Gleiwitz, primarily for the conveyance of coal and metallic ores. In 1798 he was appointed [...] smelters at Nowa Helena and Szarlej, after which, in 1823 he built his own ironworks on the Rawa River. He married the daughter of an Italian merchant at Gleiwitz (Gliwice) in 1804 and their children continued
navigable levels through underground coal workings, to Castlefields in Manchester. It was extended to the River Mersey at Runcorn in 1772, and the duke was heavily involved in the promotion of many other canals [...] turned civil engineer, who was to be responsible for the routes of many more canals. It crossed the river at Barton on a masonry aqueduct that was replaced with a swinging aqueduct when the Manchester Ship [...] could be built across the grain of the country, and could be more than navigable channels alongside rivers. In a broader international context Bridgewater showed the potential for artificial waterways to
Crespi d’Adda, established by his father in 1878, were powered by a canal that ran alongside the River Adda. Crespi graduated in law at the University of Pavia in 1889 before embarking on a tour of Europe [...] managers in the 1920s which combined elements both from castles and traditional Alpine chalets. The River Adda is notable for a succession of early hydro-electric plants and in 1909 a hydro-electric plant
Harta is an artificial 8.7 sq km reservoir and rockfill dam in the upper reaches of the Moravice River. The dam was built between 1987 and 1997 to provide sufficient water for the downstream Kružberk Dam
one of Europe’s principal motor car manufacturing centres, and on a 19 ha site at Jarvel, on the River Seine in the 15 th arrondissement, André Citroën built what was to prove the largest factory ever [...] car manufacturing in 1906, and, like many European industrialists, was impressed with Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant in Detroit when he visited the United States in 1919. He applied the principles of mass [...] the founder of the company is commemorated by the Parc André Citroën, opened in 1992, alongside the River Seine on the site of the company’s first large works.
(1769-1849) and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59) was the first tunnel under a major navigable river. It was intended for use by horse-drawn vehicles, but the builders had insufficient money to complete [...] tourist attraction. It extends 396 m from Wapping to Rotherhithe in east London, and is 23 m below the river. A shield built at the Lambeth works of Henry Maudslay (1771-1831) was used in its construction. From
nature reserves that interprets and provides access to some of the lands reclaimed in the delta of the River Po in the early 20th century, the work of the Renata Reclamation Consortium, including the substantial
