Report - Klingers factory , Sidcup / June 2016

[Calamity Jane]

Done many times on here. But as Im new, thought I would add my explore of the old place.

Klinger is an Austrian manufacturer for valves and borosilicate gauge glasses. In 1936, they expanded their production facilities to England and opened this factory in Sidcup. This factory was built in 1937 to the designs of Wallis Gilbert and partners for Richard Klinger Ltd. The Klinger company was founded in Austria in 1893 and made gaskets for engines and hydraulic pipelines and also water level gauges and valves. This building was built in the latest Modern style of architecture. The building originally had water tanks at the top of the central tower. There was a second floor company flat intended for visiting Austrian executives, offices on the first floor, cutting shop and tool room on the ground floor and storage for rubber, asbestos, chemicals and consumable items in the basement.

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[pepperplant]

Place is being pulled down now!

 

[Calamity Jane]

Place is being pulled down now![/QUOTE


Yep being turning into an Aldi or Lidl or something

 

[UrbanFoxCub]

Its being turned into retail units actualy like screwfix etc. The front listed building will be a self storage

 

[UrbanFoxCub]

Place is being pulled down now!

Yep all gone now thus the front bit left which wll be a self storage and retail units built On the site and no supermarkets

 

[Calamity Jane]

Its being turned into retail units actualy like screwfix etc. The front listed building will be a self storage

Ah ok. Cheers. This is quite close to me, but never been back.

 

[UrbanFoxCub]

Ah ok. Cheers. This is quite close to me, but never been back.

Yeah i lived directly across the road for six yers