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

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

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

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

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

the tilt hammer. Osemund is ideally suited to making wire. Not for nothing was this one of the region’s major industrial activities. Demand for iron and steel began to rise at the start of the 19th century [...] only shut down in 1972. The Lüdenscheid Municipal Museum has maintained an outside site here since 1980. The fully-operative equipment and machines provide a living picture of blacksmiths’ techniques from

51,000 tonnes of crude steel. By 1967, eight more furnaces of the same type had been built, and in 1980 two more modern electric furnaces went into operation. By now, the Brandenburg steel and rolling mill [...] brings to life the history of the Brennabor works, Germany's largest automobile factory in the early 1920s. Theatre performances, concerts, events and performances of all kinds take place in the events hall

support of the RWTH Aachen, the Rescheid local history society was able to build a visitor mine in the 1980s. Here guides take guests on a vivid tour of the underground galleries and tell them all about the

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

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

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

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

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

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*

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

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

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

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

London’s complex transport system has its origins in horse bus services established in the early 19th century, and the slightly later ‘cut-and-cover’ underground railways, the first of which, the Metropolitan [...] the underground system are now listed buildings. The London Transport Museum has been located since 1980 in a former flower market building of 1871 in Covent Garden. It was re-opened after extensive ref [...] condensing equipment for working on sub-surface lines, but spent its last working years until the 1930s on the rural parts of the Metropolitan Railway system. The collection also includes a horse tram imported

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