projects within the ERIH network and contribute their views on sustainability, climate change, workingconditions, accessibility, digitalisation and the design of industrial heritage. On behalf of the ERIH
), who set out here, in the context of "Manchester capitalism", his vision for more decent workingconditions. The factory gates closed in 1968. Thanks to major redevelopment, however, New Lanark is once [...] low-traffic location of houses on cul-de-sacs are trendsetting for the time. The European scale of working-class housing is epitomised by the two sites of East Tilbury in England and Zlin in the Czech Republic [...] worth a visit, as is Nikiszowiec in Poland, a suburb of Katowice and one of the most remarkable working-class estates in Europe. Not to forget the Ruhr area with its first workers' settlement Eisenheim
England as a pioneer of early industrial mass production. Some of the museums focus on the hard workingconditions of glassblowers, smelters, glass cutters, gilders and painters. In addition, basket weavers
more jute factories than anywhere else in the world. One of them was the Verdant Works. The last working jute mill in Britain is now an exciting museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history [...] in the hold of a clipper from India to Dundee before being confronted with the appalling factory conditions under which children were forced to work. They are then given the chance to contrast this to the
mother Dorothy Shuttleworth continued to develop the collection. All the aircraft are kept in flying condition and the maintenance and restoration workshops are open to visitors. Hangers contain many exhibits [...] steam engines and farm machinery of the same era are presented alongside the aircraft and kept in working order. Visitors can take rides on vintage buses.
vehicles on display, this is said to be the largest car museum in Sweden. It shows everyday and working vehicles alongside extraordinary cars. It opened in 2015 and is based on the personal collection [...] 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
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 [...] pithead towers. And those who still have the time and energy, can then pay a visit to the neighbouring working class housing estate, complete with its mining cathedral.
at the relationship between the Earth and the Sun, followed by the history of mining and the workingconditions of the miners. A show tunnel leads into the former pithead bath, which encourages visitors
soon afterwards destroyed by fire, and were rebuilt with iron-frames from 1805, and remain in that condition. Manufacturing of woollen cloth at Armley Mills depended entirely on water power until 1850 when [...] see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with their sources of power, a working water wheel and two four-column beam engines of c1820 by Matthew Murray (1765-1826) and Benjamin
stoke the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and workingconditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several old houses are furnished as workers' homes from different
The museum gives an insight into the living conditions of working people in the new industries of Finland from around 1900 until the 1960s. The forestry and papermaking company Tornator began a factory [...] the city of Imatra. The museum opened in 1975. One building displays the furnished interiors of working-class homes in around 1900, the 1940s and the 1960s. The other is the sauna, where visitors learn
from the period, all kept in pristine condition. There are over 29 working stationary steam engines including four large pumping beam engines, the oldest working electrical generator in Britain and a large
ral jewel. During its working life it was a self enclosed world cut off from the surrounding area by high walls. The mining company not only dictated everyday workingconditions but also the miners´ private [...] gives a vivid picture of the strict hierarchy at the pit and the close intermeshing of the various working processes. Visitors can experience a typical day in the life of a collier, enter the director´s office
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 [...] miners to arrive. Even the steam-driven winding wheels which were in operation till 1970 are still working. In addition the museum has an audio-visual exhibition which takes visitors on a journey through
sometimes perilous, workingconditions. A new modern building is dedicated to the history of glassmaking, whereas a hall containing noisy drop hammers, hissing fireplaces and working machine tools demonstrates
from copper, lead and zinc ores. All this is accompanied by vivid sound effects of everyday workingconditions. The mine was inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site in 1992 – along with the former Imperial
how slate blocks were extracted using drills and explosives and transported to the surface. Workingconditions are explained along with the dangers or rock falls and lung diseases caused by dust. Slate [...] objects made from slate and slate waste. More adventurous visitors can book a diving tour in flooded workings.
lime furnaces, alum plants and mines – not to speak of serious illnesses in the course of their working-lives. All this is recalled in an exhibition entitled "Masters of Fire", housed in the former forge [...] the workers, the back-breaking work which they had to endure, and their poverty-stricken living conditions are also strongly featured. Whereas the exhibition indoors explains the work and social background
1802 in Cunern (Konary, Poland). From 1835, the German Customs Union created favourable economic conditions for the cultivation of sugar beet and the beet sugar industry. By 1900, more than 600 beet sugar [...] was a lack of capital for modernisation. Dedicated workers managed to keep the old equipment in working order. During the 1990 campaign, six steam engines were still in operation, driving pumps, compressors
