Industrial heritage Archives

The best urban walks in Northern Ireland

Updated on 5 May 20265 May 2026

Historic city walls in Derry/Londonderry, with a stone archway, battlements and the Tower Museum entrance beneath a cloudy sky.

Northern Ireland is excellent walking country, but not every rewarding walk requires boots, bog, packed lunches and a suspiciously cheerful route description involving the word …

The London Eye beside the River Thames at golden hour, with Westminster Bridge, riverside buildings and boats beneath a partly cloudy sky.

Waterside walks

Riverside walks in London to explore

Updated on 5 May 20265 May 2026

From the South Bank and Richmond to Regent’s Canal, the Lea Valley and the Wandle Trail, these are some of the best riverside walks in London for easy walking days out.

The red steel Forth Bridge crossing the Firth of Forth, one of Scotland’s great industrial engineering landmarks.

Heritage Days Out Scotland

Scotland’s industrial heritage attractions and the magnificent business of making things

Updated on 3 May 20263 May 2026

Scotland’s industrial heritage attractions reveal a country shaped by mills, mines, shipyards, bridges, canals, textiles, coal, iron, steel and engineering. From New Lanark and Verdant …

Collage of Britain’s industrial heritage showing a restored mill complex, a historic steam train in operation, a coastal mining ruin at sunset, Liverpool’s dockside waterfront, and an iron bridge spanning a river in warm evening light.

Heritage Days Out Historic Attractions Regional travel UK

Where Britain made the modern world

Updated on 24 April 202624 April 2026

The best regions to explore industrial heritage Britain’s industrial past is not tucked away politely in a display case. It is still there in railway …

Night view of Belfast waterfront with a curved bridge lit in purple, city buildings glowing across the water, and reflections shimmering on the river under a dark sky

City Breaks Northern Ireland Weekend Getaways

Belfast, or how to build a city out of smoke, ships and stubbornness

Updated on 12 April 202624 March 2026

Belfast is one of those cities that seems to have lived several completely different lives and kept souvenirs from all of them. It was a …

Coventry Cathedral in sunlight, showing the roofless stone ruins of the old Gothic cathedral with its tall spire beside the modern cathedral building, which has a broad brick facade, a large cross and steps leading to the entrance under a clear blue sky

Cathedrals City Breaks England

Coventry, the city that refused to stay down

Updated on 12 April 202619 March 2026

Coventry is one of those places that has had the sort of history that would have sent a lesser city quietly off for a lie …

Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol lit up at dusk, with its stone towers and glowing cables spanning the dark Avon Gorge beneath a deep blue evening sky.

City Breaks Coastal City Breaks England

Bristol, Brunel’s playground and Banksy’s outdoor gallery

Updated on 12 April 202619 February 2026

Bristol is one of those cities that cannot decide what it wants to be, so it simply becomes everything at once. Medieval port. Georgian show-off. …

Modern waterfront scene in Leeds with colourful apartment blocks and glass-fronted offices lining a calm canal, narrowboats moored along the edges, and bright reflections mirrored in the still water under a clear blue sky

City Breaks England Weekend Getaways

Leeds, where Victorian confidence meets modern caffeine dependence

Updated on 12 April 202619 February 2026

Leeds is one of those places that people think they understand until they actually turn up. They imagine a sensible northern city that does its …

Tamworth Castle perched on a grassy hill above colourful terraced flowerbeds, with the red sandstone walls and crenellated towers standing against a clear blue sky in Staffordshire.

England Regional travel

Staffordshire, where England does pots, peaks and the odd rollercoaster

Updated on 2 April 202616 February 2026

Staffordshire is one of those quietly varied counties where you can go from rolling countryside to industrial heritage to adrenaline rides all in the same …