Former Hope Foundry, St George's Street
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Former Hope Foundry, St George's Street
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 25 Jul 2012
A fine example of an early 19th century factory, with the buildings surrounding an enclosed yard accessed through a gateway. It may have started life around 1800 as a textile mill, but was in use as a foundry by the late 1820s. Now sympathetically converted into flats.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.582314
Longitude
-2.427719