IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Stowfield, LYDBROOK, GL17 9NG

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Stowfield, GL17 9NG by members of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

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Lydbrook Cable Works
Refurbishment of the old cable works
Image: © Peter Randall-Cook Taken: 25 Apr 2021
0.03 miles
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The Old Cable Works
The land for the cable works was bought by Harold Smith in 1912. The factory's success seems to have been dictated by both world wars, when it flourished. During World War One it employed some 650 people, producing cable for the field telephones, some 15,000 miles of it was made. In between wars it didn't do so well. The receivers were called in in 1920 and it was bought by Edison Swan Electric Company in 1925. World War Two saw it's fortunes increase. It produced submarine defence indicator loop cables in 1940 and were laid in Scapa Flow, Malta and Australia. Later on in the war the factory also had one of only four machines capable of making lead alloy tube needed for P.L.U.T.O. – (Petroleum Lines Under The Ocean), which allowed fuel to be supplied to the Allied invasion force on the Continent from Britain. The Cable Works came to an end in 1966 when the Factory was bought by Reed Paper Group, which in its turn was taken over by a Swedish Company SCA. The factory finally ceased to be used around 1994.
Image: © Stuart Wilding Taken: 11 Apr 2014
0.03 miles
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Lydbrook
Cable Works now abandoned, http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/ediswan.php
Image: © Peter Randall-Cook Taken: 7 Nov 2010
0.05 miles
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Stowfield Business Park
Advertising an industrial warehouse unit to let.
Image: © Pauline E Taken: 15 Apr 2008
0.05 miles
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Former Edison Swan cable works, Lybrook
A different view which gives a better idea of the site, or would had I not been forced to take it in fading light with an inappropriate 200 mm lens through inconveniently sited trees. Still, I thought it was worth including as it does show detail you wouldn't normally see from ground level.
Image: © John Winder Taken: 11 Jan 2015
0.05 miles
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Western end of Stowfield Business Park electricity substation near Lower Lydbrook
Part of a Western Power Distribution electricity substation. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5056529 to the other end.
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 31 Jul 2016
0.06 miles
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Industrial decay at Stowfield, Gloucestershire
This is an area of contrasts. Whilst most of the Wye valley in this locality is quite rightly a magnet for tourists this disused factory on the Gloucestershire side of the river is by comparison an eye sore. The extent of this old factory site is best viewed from the heights of Welsh Bicknor looking south.
Image: © Roger Davies Taken: 14 Mar 2008
0.06 miles
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Entrance to Stowfield Business Park
Apparently they aren't happy with people taking photographs and are unwilling to say who owns the site or can give permission.
Image: © Stuart Wilding Taken: 11 Apr 2014
0.07 miles
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Eastern end of Stowfield Business Park electricity substation near Lower Lydbrook
Part of a Western Power Distribution electricity substation. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5056552 to the other end.
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 31 Jul 2016
0.07 miles
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Former Edison Swan cable works, Lybrook
The factory was opened in 1912 by one Harold J Smith. It did well during the First World War, employing 650 people on double shifts, but in 1920 the receivers were called in and Smith's involvement with the site ended. The factory was purchased by Edison Swan Electrical Works in 1925 and was used to make the specialised lead alloy used for the PLUTO (Petroleum Lines Under the Ocean) pipes laid during World War II. Edison Swan was absorbed into Siemens who continued production at the factory, which employed 1100 people at its peak. In 1966, the site ceased to be used for cable manufacture and finally stopped being used for anything at all in 1994. It's currently awaiting demolition, and I really must find a way in one of these days with my camera.
Image: © John Winder Taken: 11 Jan 2015
0.08 miles
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