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Wirksworth | United Kingdom
Wirksworth, principal town of the Derbyshire lead-mining district, and was also a textile centre, noted for the Haarlem Mill of 1780, perhaps the first cotton spinning factory in which steam power was employed, and for the production of the red tape used to tie together government documents. ...
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway
Wirksworth Station
Station Road
Coldwell Street
DE4 4FB Wirksworth, United Kingdom
Worcester | United Kingdom
This is a museum that can be appreciated at a number of levels.Dr John Wall, a surgeon and prominent local figure started the Worcester Porcelain Manufactory in 1751. At the time the country was in the grip of a craze for porcelain because it was able to withstand boiling water – a vital pre ...
Museum of Royal Worcester
Severn Street
WR1 2NE Worcester, United Kingdom
Wrexham | United Kingdom
A mining disaster on 22 September 1934 at Gresford, now a suburb of Wrexham, was one of the worst in British history. It is commemorated in the district in several ways.Henry Dennis and his son Henry Dyke Dennis developed the pit at Gresford from 1907. Its shaft was 697 m deep, the first coal was ...
Gresford Memorials
A N Palmer Centre
Wrexham Museum
Regent Street
LL11 1RB Wrexham, United Kingdom
Yeovil | United Kingdom
The name of Haynes Publishing of Sparkford in rural Somerset is synonymous in the United Kingdom with maintenance manuals for cars, and the company displays a collection of more than 400 motor vehicles near its headquarters. It includes many examples of élite marques, such as Bentley, Rolls Royce ...
Haynes International Motor Museum
Sparkford
BA22 7LH Yeovil, United Kingdom
York | United Kingdom
The ‘garden village’ of New Earswick on the northern side of York influenced housing patterns in England and elsewhere for more than 60 years of the 20th century. It was built for Joseph Rowntree (1835-1925) the Quaker chocolate and cocoa manufacturer whose factory was nearby. Construction began in ...
Garden Village of New Earswick
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
40 Water End
YO30 6WP York, United Kingdom
York | United Kingdom
York is one of the principal railway junctions in England, with an impressive station with curving glass and iron train sheds of 1872-7, and the imposing early 20th century headquarters building of the former North Eastern Railway.
The National Railway Museum is located in onetime railway ...
National Railway Museum
Leeman Road
YO26 4XJ York, United Kingdom
Vatican City | Vatican City
The Città del Vaticano (Vatican City) the global centre of the Roman Catholic church, is a 44 ha enclave within the city of Rome whose status is defined by the Lateran Treaty of 1929. One of its links with the outside world is a 1.27 km railway from the San Pietro station of the Italian state ...
Vatican City Railway Station
Vatican City, Vatican City