Former Chad Valley Wrekin Toy Works in Wellington
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Former Chad Valley Wrekin Toy Works in Wellington
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 10 Oct 2013
Looking here like a cardboard cutout, this is the High Street side of a substantial building http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3702006 extending along St John Street, built as a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in 1836, though the curved frontage seen here was absent until the early 1920s. A Sunday School extension was added to accommodate more than 400 children who attended regularly. As Victorian Methodism become more popular, a larger church was built elsewhere in 1882 whereupon this building was renamed Central Hall, where groups such as Bible Reading and the YMCA met. From 1916-1975, the building was a Chad Valley factory which made many soft toys, including the Smurfs, Flooks and Harry Corbett's glove puppets Sooty, Sweep and Soo. Now (October 2013) in use as flats.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.699336
Longitude
-2.514774