The row over factory closures under Remploy's modernisation plan still rumbles on, and 29 units closed their doors this year.
Mostly, nonresidents think of the Garden State as smelling like a row of factories.
"The government is corrupt," calls out one man among a group of strikers who have gathered near a row of factories.
Italy's president and prime minister both attended, although the latter, embroiled in rows over factory closures dictated by Fiat's plight, chose to arrive in an Audi rather than in one of Fiat's upmarket saloons.
Admittedly, conventional tourist sights along the lines of West London's imposing museums are scarce, and the area is pockmarked by postwar housing projects that replaced row houses, factories and wharves demolished by German bombers.
In the cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, rows of factory workers started turning out a new generation of Mao memorabilia — laptop cooling pads, musical refrigerator magnets and key chains — as communist trinkets became a must-have for tourists.
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel's never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal.
The actor Scarlett Johansson got caught up in a high-profile row over the factory earlier this year after agreeing to serve as SodaStream's global brand ambassador – drawing fire from Oxfam, where she previously had a similar role.
In 1976, faced with trying to revitalize Manchester's fading factory row, the city decided to raze the building, worried that anthrax might still be hiding in the crevices of the old timber and brick, Mr. Rusczek of the Manchester Health Department said.
Doohan won five 500cc championships in a row for the factory Honda team in the 1990s and expects his fellow Australian Stoner to win his home race for a fifth successive year on what will be his 26th birthday.
