and Steel, Landscapes   56.461567-2.98290515 Verdant Works (Dundee, UK). Textiles   52.0930560.12944416 Imperial War Museum Duxford (Duxford, UK). Transport...

most commonly-credited inventor of stainless steel, in 1912. Sheffield is still home to several steel works and a number of cutlery and blade manufacturers...

Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the United Kingdom or the UK) is a constitutional monarchy comprising most of the British Isles. It is...

South Wales has a proud industrial heritage, with Port Talbot being a major steel processing town, while the valleys in central Glamorgan were once the centre...

Holidays. Home to one of the best collections of Pop Art in the UK, including works by Andy Warhol. Free entry.   52.589667-2.1397782 West Park. A fine...

coast in Cumbria. A regeneration of the town in 2006 installed several works of public art in the town centre. The history of Workington dates back to...

aviation entered the picture, and freight traffic dwindled as the coal and steel industries declined. A second shake-up began in 1994 when the system was...

mined. Barnsley became the main mining town, Sheffield blasted iron into steel, and the main railway line was laid down from London to York. The cities...

fisherfolk to gain access to an islet with good salmon fishing. It's nowadays steel hawser not rope, but just as draughty across the chasm. Ulster American...

withdrawing cash. As in the rest of the UK, beware of ATM fraud, which is becoming increasingly common. The fraud works either by 'skimming' your card (reading...

Derby, and continued with the Derby Carriage and Wagon Works. The city is now the site of the UK's only remaining locomotive manufacturer. Rolls-Royce opened...

a metal-bashing industry such as shipbuilding and steel production, with a line of smoke-stack works along the coast as far as Redcar. The town burgeoned...

cultural destination. Birmingham (the h is silent) was at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution, and its wealth was built upon the multitude of trades...

Jamaica; and calypso in Trinidad and Tobago. And of course there are the steel pan performers on quite a few islands. But this only scratches the surface...

Aberdulais Falls and Tin Works, Aberdulais, Neath, Neath Port Talbot, SA10 8EU, ☏ +44 1639 636674, [email protected].uk. One of the most famous...

year-round destination city. The other towns are works in progress, sharing the ups and downs of the overall UK economy, but simply scrubbing the soot off the...

for London, so you'd only use the British Airways flight to connect. Other UK destinations are Belfast, Aberdeen, Bristol, Exeter and Southampton. The airport...

☏ +44 20 7231-3840, [email protected].uk. Daily 10AM-5PM. A museum dedicated to the works of the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel including...

(3.2 km) long, 13 feet (4 m) high, and 6 feet (1.8 m) thick, they are the UK's most extensive and best-preserved city walls. Most visitor attractions are...

ballad to the literary works recording old miners' myths. Mining and the associated culture – especially in the context of coal and steel – have also influenced...