Sentences with phrase «former mining towns»

Former mining towns at the sharp end of industrial decline.

The main settlement of Swadlincote is a rather unattractive former mining town where Labour is still popular, but some of the villages are very Tory indeed.

Early on in Faces Places, Varda and JR visit a former mining town that has been largely deserted; the housing that was built for local miners is now occupied by their elderly children.

The former mining town of Park City, Utah, sits in a steep mountain valley surrounded by ski - runs.

There's Meryl Streep (or Michael Keaton, or Rachel McAdams or Rooney Mara) strolling down Colorado Avenue, the main drag in this former mining town, not too many miles from the ranch on which Quentin Tarantino recently shot much of his snowy post-Civil War potboiler «The Hateful Eight.»

With the stated goal of stuffing ourselves with as many calories as possible to make up for the last 2 1/2 days of downhill exertion, we met up with local Jesse Ferguson who agreed to show us a bit of what this former mining town had to offer.

Depart for Virginia City, the former mining town that seems stuck in the 19th century.

There are also many historic sights including the numerous shipwrecks along the Skeleton Coast and the former mining town of Kolmanskop.

Extremely popular over weekends for lunches, brunches and teas, the former mining town that began its life just before the discovery of gold in Johannesburg, has converted itself into a perfect weekend getaway for Gautengers and Lowvelders alike.

He soon developed a series of full - length mythological figures culminating in 2010 in an 18 - metre - high figure of Hercules, cast in aluminium, mounted on top of an office high - rise in the former mining town of Gelsen - kirchen in the Ruhr region.

Kosuth has recently been commissioned to create a major site - specific installation for a new cultural center being built to revitalize the former mining town of Kongsberg, Norway and for a new laboratory building being constructed on Novartis» extended Cambridge, Massachusetts campus, designed by architect Toshiko Mori.

In response to a lack of spaces for public gatherings in the former mining town of Trbovlje, they built a miniature glass pavilion in the city centre which they call the «Tiny Museum.»

Telluride, Colorado: Peaks of at least 14,000 feet surround three sides of Telluride, a former mining town that is situated in a box canyon.

Stacked white, concrete volumes conceal the vibrant red, pink and orange interior of this theatre in the former mining town of Freyming - Merlebach by Dominique Coulon & Associés.

This sleepy former mining town of just under 50,000 boasts peculiar features that can make insurance shopping vexing.

Not exact matches

The «left - behinds» tend to be concentrated in safe Labour seats — often struggling former mining and manufacturing towns in the North of England.

Politics: The former coal mining towns here all tend to vote Labour, but the more Conservative rural sections of the seat balance this out to an extent, making the seat a marginal.

I suppose Rauch's sense of humor just veers in a different direction than mine, and she gets a kick out of the violently unfunny material that she offers up for herself here as Hope Ann Greggory, a former wild child bronze medalist turned washed - up has - been who spends her days milking whatever glory she can from her fifteen minutes in the spotlight over a decade ago while living in the one horse town of Amherst, Ohio.

Director: Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine) Why It's Great: Deep into Arizona along the Mexican border, the mining town of Bisbee exists as a ghost of its former self.

I trace our route: We'll stay at a former Gold Rush mining town tonight and hit the trail the next morning, camping out.

A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town.

Kleinzee Way off the beaten track, where the Buffels River meets the sea 72 km from Port Nolloth, is the little former diamond mining town of Kleinzee (small sea).

There are peaceful, timeless mountain villages like Vilcabamba and picturesque former gold - mining towns such as Zaruma that offer a perfect antidote to the vertiginous rush of modern - day life.

Soak up history at the former penal colony of Port Arthur, Hobart s historic waterfront and numerous gracious Georgian farmhouses throughout the countryside, walk over Cataract Gorge, a dramatic wilderness right in the centre of Launceston, take the Overland Track through the scenic beauty of Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park, admire the perfect curve of Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park, watch the majestic Gordon River meet the wild Franklin River in the spectacular wilderness of the Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, take a scenic rack - and - pinion railway to historic Queenstown, once the world s richest gold and copper mine and walk to Montezuma Falls, Tasmania s tallest waterfall, from the peaceful town of Rosebery.

Her family lived in Enugu, a former coal mining town, and she spent weekends and summers in her grandmother's rural village — images of which factor heavily into her paintings.

Ecological care for the village, a former copper mining town, continues through the present, with many systems in place, including an ongoing «remediation» of the land.

A former silver mining town, Park City is now home to two world - class ski resorts and was the mountain host for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games.