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Stourport Road, KIDDERMINSTER, DY11 7FL

Also known as Lens On Line, the company makes/distributes spectacles.

The facility opened in Spring 2020 on a brownfield site on the edge of Kidderminster. It includes a fire station which replaces the now closed fire stations in Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley. Also operating from the hub are the Police Safer Neighbourhood Team and Severn Area Rescue Association. The equipment housed here includes four Scania fire engines. The facility is part of Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service. Image

Includes the new Wyre Forest Fire Station which opened in the Spring of 2020. For more details please see:- Image

This large recycling facility was opened in 2008 by Lawrence Recycling & Waste Management, who have been in business since April 1984. On Sunday 16th June 2013 a major fire broke out, which caused a lot of destruction. A huge black mushroom cloud rose high into the sky which could be seen for miles around. Many fire engines and firefighters attended and got the fire under control, but it was still smouldering a week later. When this picture was taken, a week later, the smoke levels had begun to increase again, and a fire engine was sent to deal with it. The smoke had got worse by the following morning when the lower part of nearby Oldington Lane looked as if it was suffering from smog. Seven months or so earlier, there had been a previous but less severe fire at the plant. See also:- Image Image Image

A week after a severe fire at this recycling plant, the smoke had started to increase and this fire engine from Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service was sent to the plant. It is seen here waiting to enter the premises, while temporary barriers are moved aside. For more information, see:- Image

The main Stourport Road is on the left. The road on the right, from where the photograph was taken, is the service road, which gives access to various industrial premises on the west side of Stourport Road. In the distance, on the right, is part of the new offices of Wyre Forest District Council. See:- Image Not long after the traffic lights in the far distance, is the boundary between the towns of Kidderminster and Stourport-on-Severn. Both are within the Wyre Forest District.

Off Stourport Road: http://www.lawrencerecycling.co.uk/Services/The_Forge_Recycling_Facility_.html

Stourport Road is part of the A451. Here on the left is a section where various industrial and commercial premises are located, including the Wyre Forest Emergency Services Hub. A service road, on the left, serves these premises. Also to be found here is a bus stop and shelter, and just before this is a grassed area which includes a number of flowers, including yellow poppies. See:- Image

Although most of the large carpet factories in the centre of Kidderminster have been closed, demolished or converted to other uses carpet manufacturing still takes place in the town. This is part of the modern factory of one of the well known brands slightly out of town beside the Stourport Road.

Metal plates attached to concrete post by the A451, in parish of KIDDERMINSTER (WYRE FOREST District), Stourport Road, 135m North of the Kidderminster boundary sign, facing carpet warehouse and fitness studio on verge, on West side of road. Bradley post, erected by the County Council in the 20th century. Inscription reads:- A451 KIDDERMINSTER 2 1¾ STOURPORT C.C.W. Milestone Society National ID: WO_KDSP02.