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Its taken me ages to sort throught the 23
sets of pictures I've got to compile this...For historical purposes I think we can consider three definite and seperate incarnations of the factory and site. 1 The original ROF some 13.5ha in size. Construction of which began in Nov 1940 and production started here in April 1941. 2 Part of the site, containing mainly staff living quarters, proof ranges and a small number of manufacturing buildings were demolished to make way for the prison which opened in 1976 (I'll add some prison info at the end )3 Part demolition of the remainder, commenced in 2008 (the hospitals, de-contamination, admin buildings etc) to make way for the new category B facility, leaving us with what we now have to day. May '08 ![]() May '10 ![]() Cann't remember if these are 08 or 09 ![]() ![]() ![]() May '10 ![]() June '08 ![]() May '10 ![]() Interestingly, this pill box has been left.. Jan '09 ![]() May '10 ![]() presumably because of this statement from the British archaeology magazines report in October '09s issue..
![]() ****** Some prison info (the second paragraph is of particular interest...)-
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