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Richard Arkwrights first water powered cotton spinning mill and the breakthrough work of the Industrial Revolution. Built in a Der...

Samuel Gregs water powered cotton mill on the River Bollin at Styal, one of the best preserved Georgian mills anywhere. Its 1830s ...

Cotton mills powered by the Falls of Clyde where Robert Owen ran one of historys great social experiments from 1800: shorter hours...

Titus Salt built Salts Mill, a vast Italianate worsted mill, together with a complete stone village of terraces, church, school, a...

Adam and George Murrays steam powered cotton mills in Ancoats, Manchester, the worlds first industrial suburb. Tall brick ranges a...

Built on Thames marshland east of London and once employing tens of thousands. The 1968 strike by women sewing machinists over pay...

Japans first major European car transplant, built on a former airfield in northeast England. It became one of Europes most product...

Built for the Air Ministry to mass produce the Spitfire, delivering over 11,000 of them, more than any other plant. Today the same...

Coke fired blast furnaces in the South Wales hills at the dawn of industrial iron, with a water balance tower raising materials up...

George and Richard Cadbury moved their chocolate works out of Birmingham city smog into a garden factory and built the village of ...

William Bass built his brewery on the well water of Burton upon Trent, perfect for pale ale, and the town became the brewing capit...

The Belfast yard that built the Olympic class liners, including Titanic, on slipways beneath the giant gantry. The twin yellow cra...

The Clydebank yard of the greatest liners: Lusitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and QE2 were launched here. The 1907 Titan cant...

Gun founding and complete munitions complex on the Thames that armed the British Empire, from cannon to cartridges. At its WWI pea...

Shipyard and engineering works at Barrow-in-Furness where Vickers built warships and arms. Submarines have rolled out almost conti...

Josiah Wedgwood named his canal side Staffordshire works after the potters of Etruria. Here he industrialized fine ceramics, perfe...

William Hesketh Lever built his Sunlight soap factory ringed by an arts and crafts model village of unmatched quality. The works i...

The Grand Junction Railway planted its works at Crewe and the town grew around them. For over a century Crewe built famous classes...

The Great Western Railway works that made Swindon, building and overhauling locomotives and cars at a scale that employed three qu...

The first iron framed building in the world, built in Shrewsbury for flax spinning to a design by Charles Bage. Its cast iron colu...

Built on Pyms Lane as a Rolls-Royce shadow factory to make Merlin aero engines for the Spitfire and Hurricane. After the war it tu...

The blast furnace where Abraham Darby first smelted iron with coke instead of charcoal in 1709, freeing ironmaking from dwindling ...

A Royal Navy dockyard on the River Medway for more than four centuries, where HMS Victory was launched in 1765. It built sailing w...

Opened by the Midland Railway as its carriage and wagon works, it has built rolling stock for about 150 years under British Rail, ...

A deep coal mine at Blaenavon in south Wales that produced coal for about a century before closing in 1980. It reopened as the Nat...

The government rifle works beside the River Lea that gave its name to the Lee-Enfield, the standard British service rifle through ...