Former Goodyear Works

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Former Goodyear Works

Image: © John M Taken: 10 Oct 2010

There are plans to build housing, shops and re-locate a primary school on to the site which was cleared in 2008. Goodyear opened a factory for their European operations on the site in 1927. The plant was overtaken by new factories opened in Eastern Europe and Far East.

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