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Severn Valley Railway line near Stourport Road, Kidderminster
Viewed from the bridge over the railway line in Stourport Road (the A451), the line is seen here heading for its terminus at Kidderminster, next to the Network Rail station.
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Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 18 Mar 2013
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Entering Kidderminster
Taken from the Severn Valley Railway.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 17 Sep 2011
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Apartments on Felix Baxter Drive, Kidderminster
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 21 Jun 2023
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Severn Valley Railway at Foley Park, Kidderminster
Viewed from the Stourport Road bridge.
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 21 Jun 2023
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Footpath off Silverwoods Way, Kidderminster, Worcs
Part of a footpath leading off Silverwoods Way and linking to various residential roads on the former British Sugar Corporation site.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Apr 2017
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Kidderminster Sugar Factory
Image: © Markb03
Taken: 29 Dec 2007
0.06 miles
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Path along Felix Baxter Drive in Kidderminster
The path leads to Silverwoods Way.
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 21 Jun 2023
0.06 miles
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Part of the former British Sugar site, Stourport Road, Kidderminster
This is just a very small part of the former British Sugar Corporation site, which had a long frontage to Stourport Road (the A451) and stretched back to its boundary with the line of the Staffs & Worcs Canal. It was used as a sugar beet processing and production plant for many decades but closed some years ago, thanks mainly to increasing competition from imported sugar cane. It was well-known for the unattractive smells that emanated from the factory and when the wind was in a certain direction could be experienced in neighbouring Stourport-on-Severn.
In recent weeks most, but not all, of the many buildings on the site have been flattened. Much hazardous waste has had be removed. The site is planned to be used for "mixed development" but in the present economic climate it seems probable that this will be phased over some years.
Some very evocative photographs by Elle Dunn of the closed factory, both exterior and interior and in colour and monochrome, can be seen on a website called contaminationzone.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 18 Mar 2013
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Wyre Forest Leisure Centre
Along Silverwoods Way in Kidderminster, it has been built on the site of the former British Sugar factory, which closed in 2004.
Image: © Mat Fascione
Taken: 30 Jun 2020
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Wyre Forest Leisure Centre (2), Silverwoods Way, Kidderminster, Worcs
The new leisure centre which opened in July 2016. Other views:-
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Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Apr 2017
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