Sentences with phrase «former mining town»

Former mining towns at the sharp end of industrial decline.

College dropout Mae Borowski returns home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs seeking to resume her aimless former life and reconnect with the friends she left behind.

Mr Duncan Smith was struck by a recent documentary by Telegraph columnist Jeff Randall, which examined the example of Merthyr and how many people in the South Wales former mining town were happy to sit taking benefits and refuse to «get on a bus» and consider work in nearby Cardiff.

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.

The works shown here include Untitled (Possil, at last), originally exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, which remembers in its title the Glasgow district of Possil where Possil Pottery was located during the nineteenth century before its closing in 1942, and Untitled (Biggar) 2013 which in turn alludes to a small former mining town in South Lanarkshire.

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

Arizona is in every grape that Keenan grows in his vineyard in the charming, former mining town of Jerome, Ariz., whose narrow, winding streets hang scenically on the edge of a mountainside.

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.»

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.

Ieva Epnere's latest exhibition contains videos, photographs, and tent - like installations that highlight the isolated beauty of a former mining town in Norway.

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.»

Each site — a forest, an underground cave, a former mining town, a sea port, a farming village and a WWI battlefield — was given a theme.

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.