York Containers Factory
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York Containers Factory
Image: © Bob Embleton Taken: 2 Jul 2010
It was a red-letter day when York-Trailers (as everyone called them) built a factory on green fields at the north end of the town to construct containers for road, rail and ship use. That was 40 years ago - during my teens. Now the empty shell lies abandoned.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.344426
Longitude
-1.448195