Alegre when it was sunk by British aircraft on 22 February 1945. The battery was restored from the 1980s and the first part opened to the public in 1993. A 600 mm gauge railway which transported shells from

mining from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the regional lignite industry in the 1980s when mechanical cutters and hydraulic props were in action on a large scale. An associated “Kohle

be seen as a good employer. A canal was cut into the site in the 1790s and a railway with vast sidings created in the 1840s. Elsecar’s industrial story continued long into the 20th century. The buildings [...] Centre is the former foundry and colliery workshops of the Earl Fitzwilliam, developed from the 1790s. The Centre includes a canal basin, an early railway station, built for the owner himself, and now, [...] buildings which are now Elsecar Heritage Centre were National Coal Board workshops until the 1980s when they were closed down. The colliery where the Miners Strike of 1984-5 began is just a mile away. Around the

The earlier buildings of Marshall’s Mill were conserved and adapted to new uses in the 1980s and 90s, and more recently the nearby Round Foundry, established in the 1790s by Matthew Murray, who was responsible [...] Shrewsbury and Leeds. Marshall’s mill expanded with the construction of new buildings until about 1840. The business stagnated from the 1850s and was closed by the founder’s grandsons in 1886. The buildings [...] Revolution period, and Temple Mill in Leeds is his most impressive memorial. After entering his father’s modest linen business in Leeds he acquired a taste for entrepreneurship, developing flax spinning technology

by a film shown in one of the buildings. The wartime damage was subsequently restored, but in the 1980s the museum was threatened with closure by cuts in public spending, and from 1991 became the responsibility [...] Friesland, a boatbuilder’s workshop of 1885 from Marken in North Holland, with its attendant slip on which vessels could be drawn from or lowered into the water, together with a fisherman’s cottage from the same

Turin is one of Europe’s principal centres of automobile engineering, and Fiat’s Lingotto works was its flagship factory. The founder of the Fiat company, Giovanni Agnelli (1866-1945) visited Detroit in [...] conception of industry. Parts of the factory passed into other uses in the 1980s and production ceased entirely in the early 1990s. The architect Renzo Piano won a competition in 1994 for the rehabilitation [...] Lingotto factory was the last in a series of steel and reinforced concrete buildings designed by Fiat’s director of production, Giacomo Matte-Trucco (1864-1934). It is 507 m long and 24 m wide, with a test

recovered as a centre of coal-mining, and now has a population of about 7,000. The mines closed in the 1980s but the landscape is rich in monuments of mining history. La Chaine des Terrils is an organisation

force behind the enterprise and the man who commissioned the work was a young banker’s son, patron and founder of the world’s first museum of contemporary art, Karl Ernst Osthaus. Both these men were responsible [...] completed and, following his death, Hohenhof was variously used as a women’s clinic and a higher education college. At the start of the 1980s it was comprehensively restored. Since 1989 it has functioned as an [...] Hagen Impulse. The vision was to create “a path leading to beauty by way of reason”. In this Osthaus’s primary concern was to improve living conditions in the Ruhrgebiet. He did everything in his power to

ra SA, and in 1902 it began to be listed on the stock exchange. The steelworks was closed in the 1980s but its name continues in the company Duro Felguera SA. Many buildings survive and some are included

War in the Women’s Royal Naval Service. She married Bernard Ashley in 1949. Between 1945 and 1952 she worked as a secretary at the London office of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, and gained [...] in 1958. In 1961 they re-established the business at The Old Railway House, Carno, a crossing keeper’s cottage in mid-Wales, from which materials were distributed to women workers who made them up in their [...] the whole world dressed as milk maids’, and a Birmingham housewife who set up home in the early 1970s using Laura Ashley products, recalled that ‘We did the whole place in English country’. The company

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF ROMANIA Listen Romania’s economic history was shaped by the tensions between its extremely passionate striving toward self-sufficiency and the dominance of foreign powers. [...] factory even opened in Braʂow in 1925, but foreign debt continued to increase. In the course of the 1930s, Romania became increasingly dependent on Nazi Germany. The country made the decisive transition to [...] based on the increasing consumption of energy, raw materials and labour. Toward the end of the 1960s, the government attempted to correct its course, placing greater emphasis on more technically sophisticated

gradually contracted. Anchor Mills became a business centre from the 1980s, and production of thread ceased entirely in 1993. The Paisley People’s Archive interprets the history of textiles in many ways, with [...] and J & P Coats, of the Ferguslie Mills, which worked from 1826, merged in 1896 to create the world’s biggest thread spinning company, which used the Coats brand names. Thread manufacturing declined after [...] the Embroidery Mill, the oldest building remaining on the Anchor Mills site. It dates from the 1840s, and was originally used for the production of shawls. Buildings that can be studied through trail guides

the industry is Hydrelec at Vaujany, near the plant below the Grand Maison dam, completed in the 1980s. It displays many artefacts relating to hydro-electric power generation in the early 20th century

outstanding innovations made by the Junghans company, including a radio-controlled table clock of the 1980s, a radio-controlled watch of 1990 and a solar-powered watch of 1995, as well as alarm clocks in great [...] (1808-94). The other four floors of the factory display cars, particularly models built between 1945 and 1980. The arrangement is broadly chronological with the earliest models on the third floor, the cars made

camp. It also shows material related to the peace movement that protested against NATO’s nuclear weapons in the 1980s. In 2013, the museum opened to the public a nearby bunker built in 1981 at the NATO supply

a displays at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie at La Villette in Paris established in the 1980s. One reason for its location at Grigano is its proximity to the International Centre for Theoretical

peak the works employed 80 people. The factory became derelict in the 1960s but was rescued by a group of volunteers in the 1980s. The entire production line can be followed from the design office to the [...] management offices and the packing hall and stables. The caretaker’s house is presented as a typical workers' residence from the 1940s.

high-quality products made for Oso underwear and Fred Perry sportswear. The factory closed in the late 1980s. In 2010, work began to create a new museum as part of Mataró Museum with MNACTEC, the Museums of [...] explain the history of the industry since the eighteenth century. The second floor shows the museum’s rich textile and clothing collections.

the 1840s. It is 15 m high, and has two sets of stones. An adjacent bakery dates from the 1840s. The mills all ceased working in the early twentieth century, but the bakery continued until 1980s. Visitors

founded in 1950. By the 1980s, the company employed 14,000 people at several mines in the area. Mining began in ancient times but expanded with capital investment from the 1920s. The Spoluka mine was worked [...] is the Crystal Hall, opened in 1984, which presents a large collection of minerals from the region’s mines.