8) England

ENGLAND

1) Modern age and industrial revolution were born in the United Kingdom. And many historical industrial places had been restored, preserved as museums and declared monuments. This state is in the vanguard about aspects of preservation of industrial heritage sites, thanks also to a sincere involvement of population. We have to indicate two UNESCO world heritage sites about out theme culture and industry: Liverpool - maritime mercantile city  (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1150), and Cornwall and West Devon Mining landascape (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1215), in the south-west. 

We organize a travel about steam technology through England; we begin with a very good example, the impressive Battersea Power Station, a decommissioned thermo - electrical power station at Wandsforth, London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station#Theme_park_proposal). 
It has been very known and popular, thanks to a picture which was choosen for the cover of a famous LP album of the Pink Floyd (Animals, 1977). The building is itself an importan example of old industrial infrastructure, and there are many projects to create inside a theme park about british industrial story with a shopping center. Near London we have to visit the water treatment works at Kempton Park, Middlesex, built in 1897 to supply Thames water to the city (http://www.kemptonsteam.org/). 

Later we propose a visit to the Arkwright Society Museum at Nottingham (http://www.nottinghamarkwrightsociety.co.uk/), with an important collection of steam engines; and to historic industrial town of Leicester, where the two most important attractions are the National Space Center (http://www.spacecentre.co.uk/Page.aspx/1/HOME/), one of the most important british cultural centers, and the Abbey water pumping station (http://www.abbeypumpingstation.org/). This is an important preserved part of the old water system of the city, where the steam engines are still operating. We find another important example at Papplewick, in an important area of victorian ornate architecture, with the two last steam engines built by James Watt's legendary workshop.

And with many water roads, we have of course examples of historical pumping stations for river waters: we propose the Claymills Victorian at Burton upon Trent (http://www.claymills.org.uk/), and the Owston Ferry pumping station (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe1L-ne1OGE); here we organize guided tours, because it is not with regularity open at present. 

If you wish to make trips on the water, we propose at least two possibilities: we go to Scotland, to discover the steam ship Waverley (http://www.paddlesteamers.info/waverley.htm ), 

the last sea-going british paddle steamer (1947), which offers many possibilities of summer excursions even on the Thames until London (http://www.waverleyexcursions.co.uk/ ); and a trip to Loch Lomond, to visit the historical Balloch shipyard. This operative shipyard is owned by the Loch Lomond steamship company, which is involved to restore the paddle steamer Maid of the Loch, the last paddle steamer built in western Europe (1953 - http://www.maidoftheloch.com/ ). Regular events and visits are planned.

2) Great Britain is the oldest industrialized country, the so-called Industrial Revolution began in England at the end of 700.

This fact, coupled with vast colonial possessions of Great Britain made ​​a top world economic powers.
However, the emerging great resource is petroleum, of which various deposits were discovered in the North Sea.
The presence of iron and carbon in the last century favored the birth of the steel industry, the sector is currently in crisis, whose production has also declined significantly over the past decade.
Significant boost instead recorded the petrochemical industry, and,
Is the newly developed the field of plastics and synthetic resins; important are the tire industry and pharmaceuticals.

3) England’s industry sectors have, for long, been a pillar of the nation’s economy.
 With abundant resources and an efficient workforce, industrialization matured quickly in England and gave enough resources for the country to thrive on its own.
 Soon, other sectors were explored and today, the service sector contributes the maximum to the GDP. According to the 2009 estimates, this sector contributed 75% of the total GDP.
Tourism and the construction industry have risen sharply in the late 1990s and the 2000s, and therefore have started contributing more to the country’s growth. However, the recession years did mar the performance, with the industrial growth rate being recorded at -9.4%.

England Industry Sectors

England’s industry sectors get the country its valuable foreign exchange. The most exported goods are industrial products, such as:

· Manufactured goods

· Fuels

· Chemicals

· Processed food