ABSTRACT
The contribution of industry towards the development of twentieth-century society has been recognised, and increasingly is reflected by the number of industrial World Heritage Sites. There are industrial preservation organisations in most of Europe, America North, Central and South, Australasia and increasingly in Asia, most of which are affiliated to TICCIH and ICOMOS. Although TICCIH endeavours to work largely with international bodies, it actively supports cross-border projects such as the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH). A formal agreement was signed between ICOMOS and TICCIH in 2000 at the Millennium Congress in London whereby ICOMOS recognised TICCIH as the Expert Committee on the industrial heritage. A TICCIH Bidletin was produced from February 1988, once again edited by Dr Trinder but funded by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s led to a spectacular growth in industrial preservation and interest in Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and the Czech Republic.
