The Factory
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Factory by Evelyn Simak as part of the Geograph project.
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The Factory
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 20 May 2018
This building in Kerrison Road, called The Factory, once formed part of the Lawrence and Scott Works on the Gothic Works site > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5782024. The northern end of the building has been converted into apartments, and penthouses on the top storey which in 1957 housed the company's new drawing office. The building first appears on the 1951 OS map (revised in 1946) suggesting that it was built in the 1940s. See > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5782342 for the street frontage of the building. The firm, which still exists today, was founded in the late 19th century and by the end of the First World War it had made £1m worth of shells from home-made tools in two corrugated tin sheds. The company expanded over the years, at its peak employing thousands of people in factories across Norwich and developed some of the first traffic lights in the UK which were installed in Norwich. The building was converted a decade ago into apartments.
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Image Location
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52.6215
Longitude
1.312748