The Central Station at Orsha is one of Europe’s outstanding railway stations. The town stands at the confluence of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers, and the station is on the line from Moscow to Brest (formerly [...] The building was restored within two years of the end of the war and its interior was restored in 1980. Further substantion restoration took place in 2004. A steam locomotive, P-34 stands on a plinth at

textile workers’ colonies in Catalonia. It was established on the banks of the Llobregat river in the 1890s by Ignasi Vidal I Balet (1836-96), and its factory specialised in the production of high quality cotton [...] and Egypt. The mill was powered by electricity generated by water-powered turbines, and worked until 1980. The museum which interprets the colony was established in 1995 and is part of the Catalonian Museum

re-opened at Barlaston in 1952. A new visitor centre was added in the mid-1970s, and further rebuilding took place in the 1980s. Another new museum building was opened in 2008. The future of the collection [...] Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95) was a leading figure in Britain’s Industrial Revolution, a successful entrepreneur in the ceramics industry, a promoter of canals, and a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham

fabric samples and original design drawings from more than 130 designers with emphasis on the 1950s-1980s Finnish and Finlayson design. The museum is located on the Spinning Mill Area, which is a combination [...] textile factory, Finlayson. Finlayson fabrics were designed and printed in Forssa. During the 1950s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of different patterns were produced. As the industry gradually waned, the [...] designs and printing rolls were imported from other parts of Europe. The own design work began in the 1930s, and the studio department started at the factory in 1951. From 1934, the Forssa mills were part of

complex consists of Aleksandar’s Shaft (1853) and associated buildings: administration building (1860), workshop (1922) and warehouse (1930), used as the Mining Museum from 1980. The Mining museum is unique [...] Senjski Rudnik, established in 1853, is Serbia’s oldest active brown coal mine and the oldest preserved industrial heritage site. Located in eastern Serbia, 150 km southeast of Belgrade, this small town

that became a small museum in 1971 with help from the local authority. The museum was expanded in 1980 and in 2011 added a glass cube – the ‘aviary’ – where helicopters hang above the heads of visitors [...] equipment, models and films. One model recreates the beginnings of the helicopter – Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing of a flying machine with a rotating sail. The exhibitions tell both technological and

brick building, whose true qualities have only emerged since a process of cleaning began in the early 1980s. The hotel, after use as offices, has long been empty but is being restored, partly as apartments [...] originally a consortium of provincial railway companies whose hub was at Derby. From 1857 the company’s trains reached London by a route south from Leicester through Bedford to Hitchin, from where they used

strike of 1893. In the 1950s and 60s many migrants from India and Pakistan were attracted to work in the mill, but it proved less and less viable and production ceased in the 1980s. The mill is a Grade II*

Les Gueules Noires - the black faces: That’s the way the Walloons called their coal buddies. Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Turks and of course Belgians labored in teams to feed the insatiable [...] insatiable blast furnaces around Liege with coal. At the closing in 1980 Blegny mine was the oldest and last remaining mine in the region. Who descends here by cage, is able to follow almost the entire history

area as one of the centres of the Ida-Virumaa mining area of north-east Estonia. It is one of Europe’s principal sources of shale oil which was extensively mined in the 20th century and is still being extracted [...] extracted to be used in generating electric power. Mining began in 1916, and production reached a peak in 1980 with an annual output of 31 million tonnes. The museum is based at a mine that began production in

world’s most celebrated stone arches, the Alcántara Bridge, constructed by the Romans and many times rebuilt. The city is dominated by the Alcázar fortress which took its present form in the 1540s, although [...] whose role had for several decades been restricted to the supply of ceremonial weapons, closed in the 1980s, but several workshops in the city still manufacture swords with the traditional Toledo blades. [...] notorious symbol of nationalism in the Spanish Civil Wars, has since 2010 has been the site of Spain’s army museum, an amalgamation of several institutions the earliest of which was the Royal Military Museum

Second World War, however, the cutlery industry in Thiers entered a time of economic decline. In the 1980s, the exeptionally designed pocket knife ‘Le Thiers’ was to become kind of an umbrella brand for Thiers

the onset of foreign competition in the 1860s many craftsmen in the city turned to making bicycles, and from bicycles to motor cycles and then, from the 1880s to motor cars. During and after the Second [...] Coventry was the centre of motor manufacturing in England until the late twentieth century. The city’s principal occupations in 1800 were the making of ribbons, which generate a substantial trade in the [...] making small numbers of cars almost on a cottage industry basis. The Museum of Transport opened in 1980 as a satellite building accommodating the growing collection of vehicles in the Herbert Art Gallery

institution’s most notable features was its school of music where many accomplished instrumentalists received their training.A part of the building was severely damaged in an earthquake in 1980. The building

the late 1960s. As the nature of electronics production changed the company had less need for a traditional factory and parts were let to tenants, particularly to artists from the early 1980s. A rehabilitation [...] complex extends over 5 ha, and was reckoned to be the largest factory in Finland. From the early 1960s Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy became more concerned with electronics rather than traditional cable-manufacture

Ashington Group was formally established and held its first exhibition in Newcastle. In the late 1930s and during the Second World War the group received some recognition from celebrated artists and critics [...] but in 1975 their work was again brought to public attention, and an exhibition was displayed in 1980 in Germany, the Netherlands and China. The collection is now displayed in the Woodhorn Colliery Museum

changing seasons, a participatory garden, gastronomy and an ambience stand. In the course of the 1820s, the brothers-in-law Johannes Dunker and Franz Maste had a brass rolling mill built. In the following [...] century. In the 20th century, Barendorf was home to a metal washing plant and a metal goods factory. In 1980, the city of Iserlohn bought the site and has since been working to preserve and revitalise the listed

war, hardly any company wanted to know anything about inhuman exploitation. It is only since the 1980s that companies have gradually begun to face up to independent investigations. The first camp for forced [...] shortage of labour for poorly paid or dangerous jobs, especially in the chemical industry. From the 1950s, forced prison labour was used in virtually all industries. Notorious were the open-cast lignite mines

steam-powered mills in Gross-Siegharts. The industry still employed many people in the town in the 1980s, but the fall of the Iron Curtain led companies to shift production to areas in the east where wages

Society was established in 1975 at Buxton, achieved some success but had to move to Darley Dale in 1980s. It worked trains to a temporary station at Matlock from 1991 and in 2011 began to share the main [...] 1849. It was extended through Monsal Dale to Buxton in 1863 and the route became the Midland Railway’s main line from London St Pancras to Manchester. It was energetically promoted as a scenic route. The