“News and events, projects and opinions on industrial heritage and industrial archaeology around the world.”
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David Worth
A new photography exhibition immortalizes the drawing offices where the Titanic was designed.
Historic copper signage disappears from Buffalo
At the same time the area's industrial heritage has been preserved with the kilns and brickworks chimneys at the corner of Sydney Park Road and the Princes Highway. Posted by Ann at 6:00 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!
Thanks to Pere-A Fabregas on LinkedIn for this.
Irish property developers' grand vision for Battersea power station left in ruins 
Page on the successfull re-conversion of the Nobel's Dynamite factory of Paulilles in France. Paulilles, which produced tens of thousands of tons of explosives for Suez or Panama channels, for instance, was an heavy and dangerous industrial site within a wonderfull natural landscape. It is now a museum of Dynamite industry, doubled with a natural bay seaside resort....In French...Sorry ! Maybe of interest...
Potteries design students, in collaboration with local industry, are reinventing a classic British brand... Countries across Southern Africa are pouring billions of dollars into overhauling their railways, hoping to ease the flow of exports. 
Take a ride through the history of New York City’s subway system, which remains a staple of daily life since it started in 1904. |
Middleton has a very rich industrial heritage. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first revenue earning locomotives to run on the Middleton Railway, in 1812, and of course the first in the world.
On 'smokestack nostalgia' this very interesting blog post from Tim Strangleman urges us to look beyond the buildings, sites and artefacts, and to remember the people who worked in the industries we've since lost.
Murals that celebrate 1960s technology will have to be preserved elsewhere if owner Goldman Sachs redevelops site... 
The Guardian (blog) How local government can preserve our industrial - across England practice in dealing with the industrial heritage is very variable.
Aberdeen, Scotland: A planning application has been made for the comprehensive regeneration and restoration of the disused and derelict Broadford Works, the largest collection of Category 'A' Listed buildings at risk in Scotland. 
Residents of a pair of once-booming mining towns in Namaqualand now await a resurrection. 
In the past 30 years, the UK's manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it? 
Abandoned subway terminal in New York pitched for redevelopment into a sunlit, subterranean park, replete with 60,000 square feet of flowers, ponds and trees.
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