industrial ruins, abandoned places ...

http://www.abandoned-places.com
abandoned places: beautiful photographs and poetic text about abandoned sites.

http://oboylephoto.com
photographic essays of modern ruins.

http://detroityes.com/home.htm
The Ruins of Detroit: wonderful photographs of Detroit's lost industrial glory

http://www.fotoralf.de
Ralf R. Radermacher's page with abandoned places

http://www.abandoned-buildings.com
Pictures of abandoned buildings in Belgium

http://users.pandora.be/lab-wan/
L a b - W a n : day and night photography of abandoned places in Belgium by Luc Van Den Bosch

http://www.homepage.mac.com/yveshenrileleu
Actual Photography with Vintage Cameras: including historical industrial buildings in Belgium

http://www.forgotten-places.com
Forgotten Places by Tomas Gheys

http://www.exposed-photography.com
industrial photography with focus on Belgien by Geoffrey van Beylen

http://www.st-al.com/
Still Alive: industrial photography from Italy

http://www.decadence-of-decay.nl
back in time, where people used to live, work or die...

http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/industrial_ruins/
industrial ruins in Great Britain by Tim Edensor

http://www.urb-ex.com/
URB-EX urban exploration by Thierry

http://www.marodes.de/
ramshackle pictures: industrial culture in the Halle area

http://www.studio51.be
industrial photography by Jos Gruythuysen

http://www.fotogalerie-gut.de/
photographic gallery GuT / Gralingen und Thomas

http://www.freakelement.de
industrial photography by Stefan Krause

http://www.jornmark.se/
industrial photography by Jan Jörnmark (Sweden)

http://www.contaminationzone.com/
Contaminationzone industrial photography

http://www.massdecay.com/
massdecay urban exploration

http://www.opacity.us/
opacity urban ruins

http://www.http://www.pastglory.nl/
past glory, the abandoned, decayed and forgotten, photography by Jan Stel

http://www.miamiphoto.it/
miamiphoto (industrial) photography by Diego, Italy

http://urbex.mikeonline.ca/
urban exploration urbex.mikeonline.ca

industrial history and photography

http://www.pieterderaedt.net
industrial photography (and more) by Pieter De Raedt

http://www.viktormacha.com/
Industrial photography with a focus on heavy industry my Viktor Mácha

http://www.st-al.com/
Still Alive industrial photography by Marcello Modica

http://piu58.bplaced.net/
architecture and industry with a focus on Leipzig by Uwe Pilz

http://www.schlagschatten.ch/
Schlagschatten photography by Holger Schimanke

http://photozubek.ic.cz/
industrial photography (steel industry and mining) by Pavel Zubek

http://www.dubtown.de
A collection of high quality photographs of abandoned factories, steel mills etc.

http://www.christian-bruenig.de
images and information about industrial heritage in Europe

http://www.stahlseite.de
The steel-site by Uwe Niggemeier

http://www.mining-europe.de
wonderful guide to mining and steelmaking sites in Europe

http://www.wisoveg.de
economic-, social- and traffic-related information in the Rhine area

http://www.fhoffi.de
Photographs of Frank Hoffmann with many industry related images

http://www.zeitraum-galerie
Zeitraum-Galerie with architecture-related photographs

http://www.lipinski.de
Industrial photography with emphasis on the Ruhr area

http://www.zwischenemscherundruhr.de/
Industrial photography and history in the Ruhr area

http://www.der-foerderturm.de/
The headframes of the Ruhr area shown on historic picture postcards

http://home.hccnet.nl/ps.baaijens/map1-indfot/index.html
industrial photography by Piet Baaijens (in Dutch language)

http://www.revier-gang.kulturserver-nrw.de/
Industrial photography focusing on the Ruhr area

http://www.nfoto.de
Industrial photography in Black & White

http://www.lostlabor.com
Outstanding industrial photographs from American archives

http://www.nokturn.to2.pl/industria.htm
Impressive photographs from Silesia (Slask)

http://www.urbanexplorers.nl
industrial photographs from the Netherlands and Belgium

http://www.industriekultur-nord.de
industrial photographs from the North of Germany

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/reliques
Very impressive industrial photographs from France

http://www.technikmuseum-online.de
Virtual museum on history of industry and transportation

http://www.lostareas.de
LostAreas Industrial Culture

http://shinjuku.cool.ne.jp/industopia/
Impressive industrial photographs from Japan by Naoya Sugasawa

http://www.tairona.de
Photographic site with industrial photographs from Germany and Belgium

http://www.horst-bauer-industriegeschichte.de/
industrial history and photography by Horst Bauer

http://www.reviergalerie.de/
The Ruhr area image by Günter Mowe: paintings, photographs ans drawings

http://www.huibnederhof.nl/
architectural and industrial photography by Huib Nederhof (NL)

http://www.schultzphotos.com/
photographs by Mike Schultz (USA)

http://www.urbanprojects.tk
Urban Projects: industrial history in Belgium

http://www.carbon-power.de
Carbon Power: the website about power stations

http://www.printroom.com/pro/Dorsett55
Steel-Industry in Pittsburgh by Bob Dorsett

http://www.theviewfromthenorth.org/
Urban, Rail, Street and the North West of England.

http://www.eifelmomente.de/herbst/120-78112009-nachtfotos-in-seraing-und-luettich
night photography at seraing and Liège by René Pelzer

http://www.fotorevier.net/
Pictures of the Ruhr-City

http://www.indusphere.be/
INDUSPHERE industrial photographs by Pieter De Raedt

http://www.steel-industry.org/
Steel Industry Photography

http://www.linthout.it/galleriestatoluoghi.html
Lorenzo Linthout photography

mining and coking technology

http://www.tkencoke.com
ThyssenKrupp EnCoke: engineering with focus on energy- and cokemaking technology

http://www.gaswerk-augsburg.de
A very detailed documentation about the gasworks in Augsburg Oberhausen

http://freespace.virgin.net/david.harris9/
A beautiful site on Bedwas Colliery in South Wales

http://www.thomaslewisroughcollier.freeservers.com/
A site about a family from South Wales with many historic photographs of Welsh coal mines

http://www.MineCountry.com/homeMine/
This site is dedicated to the coal country in Pennsylvania

http://charbonnages.hainaut.voila.net/
Directory of Belgian coal mines including historic photos

http://www.mhti.com
Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland (Iontaobh Oidhreacht na Mianadóireachta): inventory of Irish mines

http://www.ta.tudelft.nl/coalpage
Exhaustive and well illustrated description of coal mining in the Netherlands

http://www.leboisducazier.be
Le Bois du Cazier: mining museum in Charleroi (Belgium)

http://www.mg.mtu.edu/mining/oldpix.htm
Mining Engineering History at Michigan Tech

http://www.coaldelivery.com/gallery.htm
photographs on mining history in Pennsylvania (coal trucks and breakers)

http://www.pro-bergbau.de
The e-mail-collection for the support of the German hard coal mining

http://www.youngstownsteel.com
history of Youngstown iron and steel industry

http://www.mindat.org/index.php
The mineral database with many mine locations

http://www.minersadvice.co.uk
Information about mining in Great Britain

http://www.dmm.org.uk/
Durham Mining Museum

http://www.ostkohle.de
The reference on lignite mining in East Germany

http://www.minesofsardinia.com/
Mines of Sardinia

http://hometown.aol.com/cntryboy130/sagamore.html
History of Sagamore (Pennsylvania) and the surrounding coal mining towns

http://www.bbfl.de
AG Bergbaufolgelandschaften e.V.

http://f-stop16.com/abe
Pennsylvania anthracite mines by Christian Abraham

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikonman24/sets
Pennsylvania anthracite mines by Christian Abraham

http://www.minister-achenbach.de/frames.html
The site about Minister Achenbach colliery, Lünen, Ruhr Area

http://www.guenter-pilger.de/ruhrgebiet_1.htm
The Ruhr area by Günter Pilger

http://www.ruhrpottfotograf.de/
photographs from the Ruhr area by Joël Bauer

http://www.langendreer-info.de/
Website on the East of Bochum with historic photographs

http://www.miningplazza.com.au/
Australian website dedicated to providing mining industry knowledge

http://www.miningplazza.com.au/mining-companies.html
Mining Industry Companies Database

http://www.die-stoppenberger.de
Die Stoppenberger (from Essen Stoppenberg)

steel-industry

http://www.initiative-voelklinger-huette.de/
Initiative Vöklinger Hütte: the page about the steelworks 'Völklinger Hütte'

http://www.vdeh.de/
VDEH German Iron and Steel Institute (Steel-Online)

http://www.steel.org
American Iron and Steel Institute, Steel Works

http://www.steel.org/learning/
American Iron and Steel Institute: description of steel making technologies

http://www.dk-duisburg.de
DK-Recycling (Duisburger Kupferhütte): this unique company with it's interesting sintering plant and blast furnaces recycles pig iron from industrial waste material.

http://www.ads-news.de/industry/contenti.htm
A fascinating collection of historic photographs of the 'Duisburger Kupferhütte'

http://www.weirton.com/
Weirton Steel

http://www.hkm.de/
HKM steelworks

http://www.duferco.be/
DUFERCO (Belgien)

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clydebridge/
Clydebridge Steelworks History

http://www.gleisbau-welt.de
Excellent site about railway track construction

http://www.geocities.com/pittsburghtrail
Images from the 'steel-town' of Pittsburgh

various industries and industrial architecture

http://www.hansonbrick.com
brickworks 'Hanson Brick'

http://users.pandora.be/karel.roose/vierendeel/vierendeel.html
The site about 'Vierendeel' bridges

http://www.powerproductsspot.com/Generators.html
generators

http://www.mayko.de/
MAYKO natural stones

http://www.resource-net.com
resource-net research and analysis of the global commodity markets

railways

http://www.merte.de
information on industrial railway systems

http://www.rpreston51.fsnet.co.uk
Historic locomotive models by Robert Preston

http://www.gleisbau-welt.de/
Everything about construction of rails

excavators and cranes

Thanks to Sebastian Suchanek for the hints!http://www.bagger-und-bahnen.de


http://www.baggerfan.de


http://www.lkw-stefan.de


http://www.geocities.com/upoeschl/


http://www.baggernaddel.de


http://www.baggerfreunde.de


http://www.stripmine.org


http://www.hcea.net


http://www.igfbsk.de


http://www.miningusa.com

industry related publication and institutions

http://www.vub.ac.be/SGES/
History department of the University of Brussels

http://www.steel.org
everything related to steel-industry (including many links)

http://www.steel-times.com
'Steel Times', a publication on steel related topics

http://www.steeltimesint.com
'Steel Times International', a publication on steel related topics

http://www.industrie-kultur.de
newsletter on industrial history and culture (German)

http://www.moorebooks.freeserve.co.uk/
my favourite mining-related bookshop

http://www.vvia.be/
Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology

http://www.guiollard.fr
Publications about mining history (focusing on France)

http://www.iarecordings.org
IA-Recordings Industrial Archaeology Video Archive: a great collection of video recordings of industrial installations

http://www.industrieel-erfgoed.nl/
industrial culture in the Netherlands: Federatie Industrieel Erfgoed Nederland

http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

http://www.catpaisatge.net/dossiers/pindustrials/eng/index.php
Landscape Observatory: industrial landscapes

industrial museums

http://www.fernmeldemuseum-aachen.de
The telecommunication museum of Aachen demonstrates old communication technologies in working conditions

http://www.mo-nu-mente.de
WHAT STILL REMAINS... moments of industrial architecture in the Rhine-Main area, architectural photographs on the industrial heritage trail

http://www.poleminier.com
the mining museum musée de la mine de Gréasque / le puits Hely d'Oissel

http://www.ecomusee-regional-du-centre.be/
The mining museum 'Ecomusée Regional du Centre' Bois du Luc

http://www.textilmuseum-aachen.de/
Aachen textile museum

http://www.museodelasiderurgia.es/
Museo de la Siderurgia / iron and steel museum, Hornos Altos, Langreo - Asturias (Spain)

photography and art

http://www.astrid-aix.de
gallery with beautiful watercolours and oil paintings

http://www.immo-meter.de/stilmusterbuch
history of architectural styles

http://www.grossformatfotografie.de
discussion board and gallery on view camera photography

http://www.photographyboard.net
discussion board on photography

http://www.bilder-der-arbeit.de/
Archiv BILDER DER ARBEIT, Work and Fine Arts

http://www.fotokalender-tips.de
photo calendar tips

http://www.stueber-web.de
A collection of beautiful watercolours showing industrial installations in and near Hassel and Westerholt

http://www.kurtjackson.co.uk/
Kurt Jackson - Cornwall painter, nature, environment, landscape artist

http://www.mm-photoconsulting.de/
photoconsulting.de

http://www.photography-portal.de/
Photography portal for photographers

http://www.f-stop16.com/abe/
Standing the Test of Time: A Photographic Essay by Christian Abraham

http://www.fotogalerie-thomas.de/
Fotogalerie Thomas (industrial photography by D. Thomas)

http://www.jamesmilnephotography.co.uk
photo gallery by James Milne

discovering industrial history

http://www.gamber.net
Cycling Belgium's Waterways: discovering Belgium's (industrial) landscape by bike

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