century the valley was celebrated for its Arkwright-style cotton spinning mills, and for battery works making sheet and bolts from copper, smelted in Lancashire and Swansea from ores mined at Parys Mountain [...] valley in which the remains of a succession of dams and the foundations of cotton mills and copper works have been preserved.
the colliery), go inside the colliery workshops and watch the craftsmen at work, before taking a look inside a typical worker’s house from the start of the 20th century.
demonstrations by traditional hand-craftsmen revealing the skills and artistry of generations of quarry workers. Much of the site still looks like it did in the 19th century. The gigantic waterwheel that once [...] forges and an iron and brass foundry. Even the narrow gauge railway that linked the quarry with the works is still running. Quarryman's houses have been rebuilt on site and refurnished to show the cramped
century Dundee had 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 [...] 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 luxurious lives of the Jute Barons and their [...] computer programmes, audio-visual scenarios, the smell of oil and the noise of running machines, Verdant Works is a place where the power of the industrial past is made vividly present.
The Völklinger Hütte (ironworks) in Germany’s Saarland, which was shut down in 1986, can be justifiably described as an industrial dinosaur. It extends over an area of 600,000 square metres and exempl
vehicles in the correct manner is a major part of the museum´s activities. The Bochum-Dahlhausen railway works first went into operation in 1918 as a repair workshop. A few year’s later it was given its own l
present. One of Europe’s largest chemical sites is booming here on the former site of the Hüls chemical works. All the necessary prerequisites are in place: a motorway right in front of the door, its own rail
convinced the city fathers of Wuppertal that they elected to copy it for their own ends. Construction work on the 13.3 kilometre long steel framework began in 1898. Three years later on 1st March 1901 the
The tour of the machine rooms, blackened by coal dust, extends over seven floors and brings former workers' everyday routine to life in touching video interviews. Historical machines dating from 1918 onwards
Twelve hours work in suffocating factory rooms followed by a meagre dinner in a house belonging to the company, and maybe a chat over the garden fence with the neighbour before going to bed. This was more [...] owner’s word was law: twine and spinning frames dictated the rhythm of life. But now the noise of work has died. A new suburb has grown up on the abandoned site, consisting of listed buildings and modern [...] ornamented red brick building of the old turbine house which used to be the central power station of the works. In the adjacent row of sheds visitors can follow the process of turning raw wool into yarn – some
eighteenth century. Other sites to visit in Norwich include former textile factories, brush works and vinegar works together with important civil engineering structures such as Coslany Bridge. Gybsons Well
lives of 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 [...] experiences. Right next to the forge is the old lime works, and the huge lime furnaces can still be seen on the road leading to the works. People still work here. During the week lorries transport heavy loads [...] lime works dating back to 1897, on the edge of the town. With the aid of up-to-date exhibition techniques and modern information media, visitors are able to learn more about the "masters", workers and
and an engineer, M. Lelièvre. More buildings were erected on the site, which even included its own workers´ quarter. Nowadays visitors to the museum can go on an impressive guided tour which includes a d [...] history and techniques of glassmaking from the ca. 250 exquisite glass products and imaginative glass works of art. Visitors will not only feel warm in their heart when they take a tour of crystal manufacturing
museum. The church in the ironworks settlement dates from to the early 1770s and there are still many workers' houses along the riverbank, the oldest of which dates from to the 18th century.
the River Rur with its narrow streets and half-timbered houses blossomed in the 18th century. Here workers produced precious woollen material which was exported to countries as far away as Turkey and Russia [...] over at the start of the 19th century, it attracted waves of people into the town in search of paid work. But the poor road communications and the difficulty firms experienced in expanding their businesses
The mineralagical museum established by the Lavrion Studies Society (EMEL) in 1986 commemorates the work of the geologist and mining engineer A. Kordellas (1863-1909). The museum, in a building of 1873 built
the 1790s in a tour of the house and its gardens. There is also an engaging exhibition of Boulton´s work in developing the steam engine with Watt, and of the products of his Soho Manufactory, which made
ironworkers worshipped dates from 1737 and its bell tower from 1766, while between the works and the church is a group of workers’ houses of c 1800, covered in ‘punamltamaali’ the traditional rusty-red paint of
