illustrate such themes as the ways in which cooking facilities in people’s homes changed diets in Denmark between the 1950s and the 1980s, and how the availability of gas-fired heaters for bath water improved [...] 2002. The first gas plant for public supply in the country opened in Odense in 1857. At the industry’s peak there were 112 works in Denmark producing coal gas, the last of which, the Strandvejsgasvǽrket

other parts of Europe, even large-scale and well-equipped collieries ceased to be viable from the 1980s. Winterslag pit, 4 km north-west of the city of Genk, was the first of the Limburg mines to open,

on classic and collectible motor cars, although there are numerous Ford Sierras and BMWs from the 1980s. The earliest is a Ford Model T of 1912. A most unusual vehicle is an armoured Cadillac weighing 4

Puurs, where the terminus is 150 m from the SNCB/ NMBS station. The line closed to regular traffic in 1980. There are four intermediate stops including Baasrode North where locomotives and carriages are based [...] and yellow ‘autorails’ (railcars) that were familiar features of Belgian branch lines from the 1950s.

section was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1977, but was rebuilt in 1980-83, although a further closure was necessary in the 1990s after a further earthquake. The tower is 22 m high, and has four floors [...] The prominent water tower in Chişinău accommodates the city’s museum founded in 1979. The tower was designed by Alexander Bernadazzi (1831-1907), a Russian architect of Swiss-Italian origins, who is best

in central Europe. Tin was mined in the Starý Martin gallery until 1922 and in the area until the 1980s. The mine opened to the public in 2000. Visitors have access to a half-kilometre-long gallery cut

pocket knife. It was very popular with carters as well as shepherds and cattle breeders. Since the 1980s, the Laguiole knife has experienced a tremendous renaissance, with many small workshops springing [...] plateau in the southwest of the Massif Central and is well-known for the knife that bears the town’s name. A local cutler developed the Laguiole knife in 1829, following the pattern of the Navaja, the [...] authenticity of the manufacturing process with the visitors in order to outrival low-cost competition. That’s why most of the smaller workshops let visitors watch them at work. The "Forge de Laguiole", designed

making. Such was the prosperity of these industries that the population of Mesnay between the 1790s and the 1860s never fell below 1,000. The museum describes the manufacture of cardboard and its application [...] significance. The company contracted from about 1960, most factories had ceased operation by the 1980s, and the last mill making cardboard closed in 2001. There is also an exhibition about bees in the

Since the 1980s, Karmansbo ironworks has been one of the many sites of the huge Ekomuseum Bergslagen. It is a forge preserved in working order for converting pig iron into wrought iron, which was used [...] tools. An ironworks existed on the site in the seventeenth century. It was redeveloped in the 1870s and operated until 1958. Although damaged by floods in 1977, since 1982 it has been owned by the local

in the 1980s. The Cordouan lighthouse is of extraordinary technical historical importance; therefore it has been listed as a 'Monument historique' since 1862. In 2021, it was inscribed on UNESCO’s World

industrial museum in the mid-1980s. It was one of the last of a succession of conventional indoor industrial museums developed in large towns and cities in the United Kingdom from the 1960s. The museum was initially

type-setting machines used from the late 19th century until the end of hot metal printing in the 1980s. The museum holds the Swiss Historical Paper Collection made by Dr W F Tschudin, author of the standard [...] converted to make paper in 1453, continued to do so until 1955, and was adapted as a museum in the 1970s. Its displays provide a comprehensive picture of the development of paper making and printing. There

an American frigate of the Second World War, which sailed the North Atlantic from 1958 until the 1980s. It is classed as an ancient monument. Manuel Joel of 1954 was the last wooden trawler to be built

garage, a wartime assembly factory and a fruit and vegetable cannery that finally closed in 1980. In the mid-1980´s the heart of the factory between the river and Minstergate was cleared for redevelopment [...] of engine as well, including the even larger Road Engines, Ploughing Engines and decorated Showman´s Engines, used for powering Fairground equipment. Many traction engines still exist, 403 from Charles [...] . This high rate of preservation reflects the value placed on the engines by their owners. Burrell´s were not the largest manufacturer but produced high class engines of stylish appearance and unique

including a limousine that was used by Marshall Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) president of Yugoslavia. Another section displays Slovenia’s forest industries and includes saw mills, workshops of carpenters, [...] Ljubljana, about half-way between the towns of Borovnica and Vrhnika. The headquarters of Slovenia’s technical museum, which was founded in 1951, is a mansion in the centre of an estate that was once a

East Railway Company began in 1890 and it opened in 1893. In the 1920s, it loaded around 140,000 tons of coal a week. It closed in 1980 and became derelict but was recognised as an iconic monument. Phased

At Riihimaki, north of Helsinki, is Finland’s national museum of the glass industry. The origins of the museum were in 1961 but in 1980 it relocated to a former industrial building. This began in 1914

many innovations to its credit, and was once of the first to manufacture numerical relays in the 1980s. After various mergers in the late 20th century it is now part of the ABB Group and is called ABB [...] directly by ABB. Some of the buildings constructed after the Second World War, including some of Europe’s most elegant bicycle sheds, were designed by the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). The

its twelve galleries. The museum was erected between 1980 and 1987 retaining its original frontage. Its displays illustrate the hole of the nation’s history from Palaeolithic times, through the centuries [...] Dacian frontier of the Roman Empire, and through a succession of subsequent occupations. The country’s history is reflected in the numismatic collection, which includes coins from the Greek, Dacian, Roman

railway’s own collection includes more than 20 steam locomotives, mostly from Belgium, but there are some from Poland and other countries that operated steam locomotives into the 1970s or even the 1980s. There [...] heaviest passenger trains in the 1930s. There are also 13 diesel locomotives and some of the red and yellow autorails (railcars) that worked Belgian branch lines from the 1950s. [...] of former railway employees who now run trains over 14 km from Mariembourg to Treignes. The branch’s remaining 3 km across the border into France have been abandoned since the line includes a tunnel now