 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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From world leader to dereliction; Ex-worker chronicles plant history.(News)
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Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
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February 20, 2008
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Byline: By MATT CASEY
A NEW history is being written of a great industry that once employed 12,000 people in Newcastle.
The decline of Parsons, which built turbine generators for the world's power stations, brought the human suffering of redundancies and the search for a new job.
These photographs show the destruction of the design and research and development office block and factory in Byker as it was ripped apart by the bulldozers and cranes. <...