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Welwyn Garden City: Former Roche Products Factory (1)

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Welwyn Garden City: Former Roche Products Factory (1)

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 15 Nov 2014

Now looking in a very sorry state with peeling render and boarded up windows this is the east end of the administration block of the former Roche Products factory on Broadwater Road. The actual factory was the four storey building behind the trees to the left. The factory was built to the designs of the Swiss architect, Otto Salvisberg, between 1938 and 1940, and is now a Grade II Listed Building. The English Heritage web page for the building is here http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1348142&searchtype=mapsearch and states that "The administration block is 2-storeyed with the bronze entrance doors set well back behind pilotis and with 7 narrow, deeply set vertical windows in the wall above." There is an aerial view of the factory in 1950 on the "Britain from Above" website here http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw028159 For a view of the other side of the building please see Image

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.798096
Longitude
-0.201041