Carreras cigarette factory

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Carreras Cigarette Factory (now Greater London House), Mornington Crescent, London -M.E and O.H Collins with A.G Porri – 1926-8 Back “on message”, this classic Deco factory is especially for those of you who were disgusted by my last Brutalist concrete entry! On Hampstead Road, NW1, this was apparently the first factory in Britain to make […]

Minimax factory entrance, Faggs Road Feltham

Faggs Road factory doorway

Minimax Factory – Faggs Rd, Feltham – Architect unknown – date unknown. I love this doorway, which is all that remains of a factory on the corner of Faggs Road and Staines Road in Feltham, very close to Heathrow Airport and Hatton Cross.  I just don’t know anything about it. If anyone has any info […]

Great West Road – “The Golden Mile”

overlooking the Golden Mile

Me on the foot bridge between the old Firestone Factory and the Pyrene factory. Looking east along the ‘Golden Mile’ towards Chiswick, you can still see the former Curry’s factory, but many of the other art deco factories have gone now. You can just see the top of the new(ish) Glaxo Smith Kline HQ.

India of Inchinnan

India of Inchinnan

India of Inchinnan, Renfrewshire – 1929 – Thomas Wallis of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners Built on the site of a former airship construction station, where they built the R34 airship, which made the first ever transatlantic air crossing in both directions in 1919.  The new art deco factory site was opened in 1930 and India Tyre and […]

Firestone Factory, Great West Road, Brentford

Firestone gates, Great West Road

The Firestone tyre factory – Great West Road – London – 1928 – Wallis Gilbert & Partners Demolished in 1980, I believe on the day before a preservation order was due to come into effect (although this could be a local myth?), all that’s left are the boundary wall and entrances.  THe rest of the site […]