The boom of the scissors manufacture in Premana is closely connected to Solingen in Germany. In the 1980s, production rose to almost 17 million scissors per year, covering all quality levels. Meanwhile, only [...] consortium that sucessfully established economic autonomy. The ethnographic museum opened in the 1980s and has a rich collection on the local cutlery industry, including products, tools and machines. It

station in the area that was once the Luleå ironworks. Its main role since it was established in the 1980s is to preserve and display objects related to the Malmbanan railway, the 546-km iron-ore line built [...] electric and diesel locomotives from throughout the 20th century, ore wagons dating between 1886 and 1980 and historical goods wagons and passenger cars. Several diesel and electric locomotives are in working

three-storey brewery, parts of which date from the seventeenth century. It was established in the 1980s and displays the tools, equipment, machines and raw materials used for brewing, as well as historic

can be seen. The focus of the displays is some 30 cars and 20 motorcycles dating from the 1920s to the 1980s by a wide range of European and American manufacturers. Some are owned by the museum itself but

spinning of fibres from silkworms to make yarn began in China and was refined in Italy. In the 1740s Jacques de Vaucanson was appointed by the French government to develop the French silk industry and [...] factories. The industry continued strongly into the twentieth century but many mills closed from the 1980s onwards. The village of Chirols is in the beautiful valley of the river Fontolière. The ecomuseum

1903 and 1906, when some 400 kilograms of gold were extracted. The mine remained active until the 1980s and opened to visitors in 2017. The accessible tunnels measure approximately 1.6 km. Guided tours [...] Joseph Herbet, the former mine captain, who took many superb photographs through which the landscape’s transformation can be appreciated. The approach to the mine is through a striking modern building that

Colchester. The first Hyam Hyam was trading in the town as a pawnbroker and clothes-dealer in the 1820s, and his sons continued his business. By 1870 they had built the Abbey Gate works in Stanwell Street [...] Colchester was one of the principal provincial clothing-manufacturing centres in England. In the 1980s the Hyam factory was adapted as offices by the Stanley Bragg architectural partnership, who appreciate

centre for Roman ceramic production, especially the fine red ‘sigillée’ or ‘Samian’ ware. In the 1980s the town council relocated the museum to a ceramics factory dating from 1866 built by Antoine and [...] workshops, drying sheds, two circular kilns, warehouses and the house of the owners. From the 1860s to the 1950s the factory produced refractory ceramics, stoneware and decorative earthenware, and later sanitary

soon became known in Bulgaria as the ‘town of black gold’. Extraction ceased in 1966, but from the 1980s public pressure grew for the creation of a museum, particularly after some former miners were inspired

software, magazines and tutorials. Among the computers are awe-inspiring supercomputers from the 1980s and 1990s, the Cray-2 (of which only 29 were built) and the IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry

it. It grew in the 1870s and 1880s with steel furnaces and rail transport and in the 1980s as the nationalized Metal Works of Ózd it employed 14,000 people. It closed in the 1990s. The museum has developed

shoemaking. Elda became an important centre for shoemaking in the nineteenth century. By the 1960s, footwear was Spain’s largest export industry and Elda hosted international footwear fairs (FICIA). The museum [...] in 2015, El Museo del Calzado Jose María Amat Amer, after the professor who worked from the late 1980s with students to collect items for future exhibitions. The first section looks at equipment used in

capital of the département of Mayenne, is the headquarters of Lactalis, now reckoned to be the world’s largest dairy company. The business was established on 19 October 1933 by André Besnier (1894-1955) [...] rapidly. The launch of its Président brand of Camenbert in 1968 was highly successful, and during the 1980s it became a major supplier of liquid milk. By the end of the twentieth century la Société Besnier [...] some 2500 objects. There are cheese mills and presses relating to the earliest stages of the company’s history, together with cream separators and churns, as well as examples of the cans, bottles and cartons

nineteenth-century Boyer cotton factory and the other was the eighteenth-century Granotes tannery. In the 1980s the town council bought the buildings and relocated two existing museums there – the local museum

artefacts, machinery, reconstructed interiors and informative displays. The museum was established in the 1980s under the German Democratic Republic and has continued to be developed. It explores the themes of

the Transcaucasian Institute of Sericulture and Silk Production. Its future seemed uncertain in the 1980s but it was taken over by a government department in 1988, saved from closure, and re-gained its i

city. After the system contracted in the 1980s only one remained, the Gråkallbanen, an 8.8 km route built in 1924 which begins in the city centre at St Olav’s Gate and goes west through woodlands and open

diversified into new plastics, injection moulding and products such as toys and eyewear. By the early 1980s the area was known as ‘Plastics Valley’ and contained over 600 companies as well as research and education

manufacture of table linen, bed linen, women’s underclothes and men’s shirts. In 1938 they were force to sell the business to the Winkel brothers who ran it until the 1980s after which a voluntary body, the Föderverein [...] and reels of thread. They can also learn of the fate of Hugo Juhl’s family. In 1933, fearing the onset of persecution of the Jews, Juhl’s daughter Hanna (b 1913) who was married to Fritz Bender, fled to

in and printed the newspaper of the same name here, as well as art books and crime novels. In the 1980s young architects developed the idea of a Pfefferberg culture factory. Thanks to many supporters it