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News and events, projects and opinions on industrial heritage and industrial archaeology around the world.
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Germany: Ferropolis, A City of Derelict Machines

Germany: Ferropolis, A City of Derelict Machines | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it

Ferropolis is maybe the most striking example of German quasi-obsessive nostalgia for its industrial heritage. An open museum opened in 1995 in Gräfenhainichen, near Dessau, Ferropolis (page in English here) is a scenic ...

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Join TICCIH - The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage

Join TICCIH - The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
TICCIH is the international organisation for industrial archaeology and the industrial heritage. Its aim is to study, protect, conserve and explain the remains of industrialisation. Facebook · Home / 2013 / March / 15 / Join TICCIH ...
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UK: Industrial Heritage At Risk

UK: Industrial Heritage At Risk | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
NOT ALL BUILDINGS IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AT RISK. They are intended to be great examples of Britain's Industrial Heritage.
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UK: 170 Years of Industrial Change across England and Wales

UK: 170 Years of Industrial Change across England and Wales | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
RT @hecsu: I love a bit of statistical archaeology. How UK industry has changed over 170 years. Nerd nirvana: http://t.co/XFbNzlTzvt
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UK: The north will rise again: the rebirth of the Manchester Ship Canal

From the port of Liverpool to Salford Quays, John Harris and John Domokos travel along its 36 miles, and talk to the people with a vision of a new Atlantic Gateway – and a post-post-industrial economy...
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UK: Historic motor company listed building to be converted into offices

UK: Historic motor company listed building to be converted into offices | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
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UK: Everyday Life during and after the Victorian Period in an East Midlands Industrial Town

UK: Everyday Life during and after the Victorian Period in an East Midlands Industrial Town | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
Post on LIP community #archaeology project in the Journal of #Victorian Culture Online... http://t.co/eUTmnE24YU
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UK: Old pilchards and Cornish industrial fishing heritage

UK: Old pilchards and Cornish industrial fishing heritage | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it

Tehmina Goskar's fascinating account of pressed and salted pilchards at Newlyn Pilchard Works.

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UK: Leeds and Liverpool Canal gets £2m. funding

UK: Leeds and Liverpool Canal gets £2m. funding | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it

Pennine Lancashire's waterways played a starring role in the Industrial Revolution and are part of the nation's industrial heritage.

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Wales: Horse makes historic narrowboat trip on Llangollen Canal

Wales: Horse makes historic narrowboat trip on Llangollen Canal | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it

A narrowboat has been pulled across a landmark on the Shropshire/Welsh border by horse for the first time in 60 years during a celebration of the area's industrial...

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Taipei Declaration for Asian Industrial Heritage

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The Fifteenth TICCIH General Assembly was held in Taipei from November 5th to 8th, 2012. The first TICCIH General Assembly in Asia signified TICCIH’s increasing attention to Asian industrial
heritage, now under increasing threat. After the four-day Assembly, the participants adopted "Taipei Declaration for Asian Industrial Heritage"

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UK: Crossrail recycling London's lost heritage

UK: Crossrail recycling London's lost heritage | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
Underneath east London, the capital's lost industrial heritage is being recycled for Crossrail.
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Wales: ‘Trail’ of statues will honour Tredegar's industrial past

Wales: ‘Trail’ of statues will honour Tredegar's industrial past | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
A six-mile sculpture trail could  bring Tredegar's industrial heritage to life (PPS the Polisher of choice for this fantastic 'Trail of Statues' celebrating Tredgar's Industrial Heritage http://t.co/SFuq1pRjtu)...
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USA: Heritage at Risk - The Pawtucket Dam

USA: Heritage at Risk - The Pawtucket Dam | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
Heritage at Risk Lowell's Pawtucket Dam Under Threat Lowell, Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River, is the home to America's first great conglomeration of water powered textile mills. The Pawtucket Dam is a crucial feature ...
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UK: Lost Mines of Lakeland

SIR Tony Robinson and the Time Team head to the Lake District on an expedition that takes them both higher and deeper than they've ever dug before.

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UK: Derby's Industrial Museum

UK: Derby's Industrial Museum | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
Most of the Industrial Museum in Derby – a rather unassuming red-brick building – was constructed after a fire in 1910. It stands on a shallow stone arcade that is all that remains of a remarkable mill erected by Thomas and John Lombe in 1721.
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UK: Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry faces the axe in funding cuts

UK: Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry faces the axe in funding cuts | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
The popular venue's London-based bosses have thrown the future of three northern museums into doubt (MoSI, Manchester’s greatest landmark to its industrial heritage, facing closure: http://t.co/QQ9IU726ra)...
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Malta: The future of Malta's industrial heritage

Malta: The future of Malta's industrial heritage | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it

Malta Independent Online

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Scotland: The Forth Railway Bridge as a World Heritage Site?

Scotland: The Forth Railway Bridge as a World Heritage Site? | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
The Caledonian Mercury
FORTH BRIDGE: WORLD HERITAGE SITE?
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UK: Railway buffs to get glimpse of the past at Abbey station

UK: Railway buffs to get glimpse of the past at Abbey station | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
Railway buffs to get glimpse of the past at Abbey station shropshirestar.com With the site almost ready for its transformation into an information centre about Shrewsbury's railway and industrial heritage, members of the public will be able to get...
Mike Redwood's curator insight, May 19, 6:45 AM

Many top tanners such as Eagle Ottawa started making leather fir railway carriages

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UK: Historic water wheel given new lease of life in Bolton

A historic water wheel that once powered a Bolton mill has been given a new lease of life.

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UK: Replacement for Bath's historic Destructor Bridge

UK: Replacement for Bath's historic Destructor Bridge | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it

The existing bridge, while a part of Bath's industrial heritage having been built for use at the old Green Park railway station in 1879, is not...

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Centenary of Bolivia-Chile railway

Centenary of Bolivia-Chile railway | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
The Arica-La Paz railway, running from Bolivia and Chile, marks its 100th anniversary while the two countries it links are embroiled in a land dispute.
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USA: Loray Textile Mill Begins a New Chapter

USA: Loray Textile Mill Begins a New Chapter | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it

New York Times

A Historic Textile Mill Begins a New Chapter

The apartments will play up the mill's industrial heritage, with exposed trusses on 16-foot ceilings, although concrete will be poured atop wood floors to muffle tenant...

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France: A 'New Louvre' North of Paris

France: A 'New Louvre' North of Paris | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it

A 'New Louvre' North of Paris
New York Times
The region, the Nord-Pas de Calais in northern France, is so closely associated with its industrial heritage that its 75-mile mining basin was granted Unesco World Heritage status last year.

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Spain: “Magadalena” Tannery in Betanzos

Grundtvig Learning Partnership 2011-2013 in Senior University of A Coruña (Spain)
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UK: New book about 'London's Lost Power Stations and GasWorks'

UK: New book about 'London's Lost Power Stations and GasWorks' | Industrial Heritage | Scoop.it
New book about 'London's Lost Power Stations and GasWorks'
Crosswhatfields? (blog)
London has a huge heritage (if we must describe it as that) of old structures of the power industries..
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