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Halesfield 23, TELFORD, TF7 4NY

At the time of the photo, the site was operated by Lafarge Aggregates UK, but was subsequently divested in 2012 to Hope Construction Materials Ltd, a new business formed to buy a series of concrete plants and a cement operation from Lafarge UK and Tarmac Ltd in the latter part of 2012. It passed to Breedon Aggregates around 2015 and since then, it has been re-acquired by Tarmac and now (2019) operates as one of their two busy concrete plants in Telford. The other is at Image

One of the older industrial buildings on the Heslop/Halesfield estate. This one was formerly the materials testing laboratory of the Telford Development Corporation, which undertook quality assessments on the various building materials being supplied to, and used by, the firms building the Telford New Town in the late 1960s and early 1970s. My father ran the place through much of that period. It is now occupied by car repair workshops and other light industrial uses.

Rather less than half a mile from the Telford & Wrekin Council Waste facility Image (which, granted, is currently closed on account of the 2020 Coronavirus restrictions) but even so, just what is it that makes people think it's acceptable to load the car up with their cr*p, and just throw it out on a public highway?

A couple of factories off the main Halesfield-Stirchley road (Halesfield 1).

This recently-rendered house (Oak House, I think is the name) originally had an OS benchmark on this wall. It's no longer visible, if indeed it survives under the rendering.

The subject of this photo lies slightly north of Image, and shows another part of the former Piper's Coppice area. This was once a working woodland to the east of Kemberton Colliery, which occupied the ground roughly where Image now stands. Fragments of the wood, and tghe adjoining Hem Coppice, remain in places nearby, but it's clearly a shadow of what is shown on the maps of the 1920s.

Built in the 1980s, or possibly a little later, this unit occupies land which was once wholly wooded by the southern end of Hem Coppice, or the northern end of Piper's Coppice, an ancient woodland that covered much of this area in the late 19th century. My recollection as a child in the 1970s is that it was also effectively common land, and sometimes grazed by pigs. Fragments of the woodlands remain, but much has been removed by development.