Springfield Engineering, née T H & J Daniels Ltd., Stroud.
Visited with @Salmon and @Polo.
Some history from the (now archived) Springfield Engineering website:
Springfield's appear have gone bust in 2012/13, with an auction of remaining equipment in July 2013.
This doesn't cover the history of the buildings themselves, as Springfield's main factory is classically 50s and the older building (that they took over in 2001) dates back much further, with parts being Victorian. These were originally part of the T H & J Daniels factory, an engineering, millwrighting and foundry business founded by Thomas Daniels in 1840 which quickly grew. After the death of Lionel Daniels in 1956, the company became the London Stock Exchange listed Daniels plc, which was taken over by Unichrome International in 1968. Rather confusingly the 1950s building has also at one point been the premises for John Brown Plastics Machinery, a status that it held until John Brown closed in 1988.
I'll start with the 50s block that we entered first:
Inside it's on two levels as per the lie of the land, and whilst stripped it is certainly dated
Moving onto the older part of the Daniels works now
Note the cast iron columns with evidence of line shaft runnings, really shows how old this half of the factory is
Buttressing, again much older than it would first appear
Rooftop toilets, very old-fashioned indeed
I'll finish with a lousy shot of one of the boiler houses. Quite why the bed from the medical centre had been dumped in here to ruin my bastarding photo I don't know
That's all for now bitches
Visited with @Salmon and @Polo.
Some history from the (now archived) Springfield Engineering website:
Springfield's appear have gone bust in 2012/13, with an auction of remaining equipment in July 2013.
This doesn't cover the history of the buildings themselves, as Springfield's main factory is classically 50s and the older building (that they took over in 2001) dates back much further, with parts being Victorian. These were originally part of the T H & J Daniels factory, an engineering, millwrighting and foundry business founded by Thomas Daniels in 1840 which quickly grew. After the death of Lionel Daniels in 1956, the company became the London Stock Exchange listed Daniels plc, which was taken over by Unichrome International in 1968. Rather confusingly the 1950s building has also at one point been the premises for John Brown Plastics Machinery, a status that it held until John Brown closed in 1988.
I'll start with the 50s block that we entered first:
Inside it's on two levels as per the lie of the land, and whilst stripped it is certainly dated
Moving onto the older part of the Daniels works now
Note the cast iron columns with evidence of line shaft runnings, really shows how old this half of the factory is
Buttressing, again much older than it would first appear
Rooftop toilets, very old-fashioned indeed
I'll finish with a lousy shot of one of the boiler houses. Quite why the bed from the medical centre had been dumped in here to ruin my bastarding photo I don't know
That's all for now bitches
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