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Skjeggedal

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

Dale power station

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In 1923 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK) expropriated large areas for power plants and development of hydropower started soon afterwards. ...

Sunde

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Geir Røssland

In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an ind...

Rubbestadneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE ENGINE FACTORY AT RUBBESTADNESET...

Litlabø

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

The first finds of pyrite at Litlabø in Stord came to light in 1864. Forty years later sulphuric ore was mined from an open mine. From 1874 to 1880 it...

"Knut" and two other six-oared boats

Båt / Boat Transport / Transport

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Årstein Svihus

The "Sunnfjord boat" used to be the common boat type in the Sunnfjord area, but already 150 years ago, it was beginning to lose ground to a modified...

The Bakkejekta sloop

Båt / Boat Hamn / Port Handel / Trade

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Gaute Losnegård

To commemorate a time when all transport of goods between the Dalsfjorden and Bergen went by sea on vessels powered by the wind, the Bakkejekta sloop ...

Alvøen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for...

Transport and Communication

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Bård Kolltveit Erling Virkesdal Anders K. Engevik

THE FJORD STEAMER BOAT “On the quay at Bergen, there lay a boat, So beautifully polished that it shone, With fine masts and a funnel with tone...

Farmers from the Fjords

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Anders Kåre Engevik

Eitt av dei store samferdsleprosjekta på Vestlandet mot slutten av 1800-talet var opninga av Nesttun-Osbanen i 1894 – ei oppbløming av lokalhandel, tu...

From “Spearway” to National Highway

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Johannes Gjerdåker

1. “SPEARWAY (public road), tracks to the mountain pasture and cattle tracks shall remain as they were from ancient time). 2.When the spearway runs ac...

Rekvemylna

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

If you enter the farmyard at Rekve, some kilometres from Bulken, where the road departs to Giljarhus, you no longer meet “the miller”, Knut Hernes, in...

The Tourists, the Landscape and the Fantasy Hotels

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Randi Bårtvedt Axel Mykleby

Tourist travel in western Norway experienced its great breakthrough with the regular scheduled steamship traffic....

The Pine Forest, the Sash Saw and the Scots Trade

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Danckert Monrad-Krohn

“THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE 17TH CENTURY” “Rats and Scots are of no use to man nor beast” was a popular saying in Bergen. It reflects the annoyance expres...

A True Gold Mine

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Kolle

THE GREAT HERRING ADVENTURE FROM THE 19TH CENTURY In that year the adventure started at Christmas time. The scene is a rural district on the fjord in...

Tysse

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ivar Bård Aadland

As early as 1862 Svein L.Røsseland started a country store and lodging house at Ytre Tysse, and later on he became steamship agent and the first post ...

Mørkhølen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Statens vegvesen Nils Georg Brekke Ivar Bård Aadland

Knarrevik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland

Having passed well over the bridge across to Sotra you pass an industrial plant surrounded by a budding community; the mineral mill of A/S Norwegian T...

Turøyvarden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Atle Ove Martinussen

Sævareid

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik

Drageid canal

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Dalland

Selsneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Dalland

Road building in Solund - scramble for state road

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Funds for new public roads were in the 1930s mainly allocated to interior regions and to linking roads. The need for roads in the county of Sogn og Fj...

The main road at Bremangerlandet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

A continuous road connection along the Bremangerlandet with ferry across to Måløy came in 1949. In 1977, the island of Frøya was connected to the high...

"Folkelånsvegen" (the people's loan road) - in the connection Askvoll-Førde

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

State road 609 connects the Askvoll peninsula with Førde through Stongfjorden without ferry. The 16-kilometre-long section from Øygard in Førde to Sel...

Os station

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ralph Wilson Anders Kåre Engevik

On Sunday July 1st 1894 the Nesttun-Os railway was opened. “On the platform Consul Gade wished the railway the best of luck, whereupon the first train...

Munkebotn

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Garnes

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Bergensbanen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak T.Helleve Atle Ove Martinussen

Already at the beginning of the 1870s demands were made that there had to be a railway connection between Bergen and East Norway. The first section be...

Hummelfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

As early as 1906 the Matre and Haugsdal waterway was bought up by the businessman Blauuw from Bergen; the first “waterfall speculator” in the Matre ar...

Valestrandsfossen - tanning industry

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland

Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of wor...

Opposition to the Flåm Railway

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

When the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) in 1883 decided that the line for the Bergen Railway would go by way of Myrdal and Finse, the county counci...

Totland - Måløy - "a highly suitable road"

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

Totland-Deknepollen was the last remaining distance before there was a continuous road between Måløy and Oppland across the mountain pass of Strynefje...

Åkrafjorden

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Magnus Saltnes Ingvald Skålnes

Dyrskard

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Nils Nonås Harald Jordal

Right from the start the road across Haukelifjell was a road from “fjord to fjord”, from the bottom of Sørfjorden to Dalen in Telemark. The connection...

Måge

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H. Kaland

Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visi...

Stalheimskleiva

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

From the oldest times on record in Norway one of the most important traffic arteries between west and east Norway has passed across Bolstad – Voss – S...

Tyssedal

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Bårtvedt

Today Tyssedal appears like a classical industrial community, a picture of modern Norway from the turn of the former century until today. A/S Tyssefal...

Stend station

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Reisete

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

CROSSING THE GLACIER ...

Espe

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ågot Gammersvik

HORSE DEALERS AND CATTLE TRADERS...

Måbødalen - road construction

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per M. Bremnes

THE ROADS THROUGH MÅBØDALEN...

Fedje traffic office

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Frank Johnsen

Kossdalen

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Nils Nonås

KOSSDALSVEGEN (The Kossdal road) ...

Herlandsfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE POWER STATION AT HERLANDSFOSSEN...

The Loftesnes bridge in Sogndal

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Kristin Ese

The Loftesnes bridge was the first bridge and road project in the county to be financed by toll money. The bridge was completed in 1958. In a 20-year ...

The Tingastad saw mill

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Sagbruk / Sawmill

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Aage Engesæter

Like a green oasis the farm of Tingastad lies in between steep and polished rocks and hostile screes on the shore under the mountain of Storehogen and...

Vaksdal

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Christopher Harris

Dalseid - Eidslandet road construction

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

The Måløy Bridge - Norway's longest bridge in 1974

Published: 02.09.2005

Author: Kristin Ese

The Måløy Bridge was officially opened for traffic in the summer of 1974. The bridge project was realized by means of a strong local involvement and i...

Moster amfi

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE LIME INDUSTRY IN MOSTER...

Flakka

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Harald Dalland

Skjervet - road construction

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Knut Kjerland Johannes Gjerdåker

The road between Eide in Granvin and Voss is one of the oldest roads mentioned in the Middle Ages. In a diploma from 1343 from Voss regarding distribu...

Ygre

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Aslak L.Helleve

Ygre Station lies hidden away for highway travellers, just below the road Vossevangen-Mjølfjell. The station building at Ygre was constructed at Nestt...

Bjørsvik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Stein Byrkjeland

The industrial settlement Bjørsvik...

Isdalstø

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Johannes Gjerdåker

POST AND TRANSPORT STATION ...

Spjutøy

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Gunn Nordal

At Spjutøy and Straumsosen there are three entrances from Lurefjorden to the fjord basin inside. Right up the end of the 1800s the ferry could not rea...

Skaråsmyri

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

PEAT EXTRACTION IN SKARÅSMYRI...

The canal through the strip of land called Florø-eidet

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Harald J. Stavang

Before the city of Florø was established in 1860, the trade at Florelandet was located in the bay of Gaddevågen and at Eidet. In 1872/73, a canal wa...

Hardangervidda – Crossing the Uplands

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per M. Bremnes

Slepa, the ancient “drove roads” across the plateau, date back to prehistoric times. Through the centuries cattle have been driven to the markets in t...