Glass Factory
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Glass Factory by John Thorn as part of the Geograph project.
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Glass Factory
Image: © John Thorn Taken: 25 Jul 2006
This factory - built to make glass for computer screens - has now closed, a victim of the move to flat panels. The site on which it was built is part of the old East Moors steelworks which itself closed in 1978.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
51.471943
Longitude
-3.147435