Many years ago, the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society produced a journal in which they listed properties that were being altered or demolished. Although this was in the 1960s, and there was much development in the town, it was still possible for the Society to comment upon such works, and that in nearby villages.
Today, this task would be impossible! Developments and alterations are so numerous, it's unlikely anyone could keep up. So, as the plan to demolish the Herbert Morris East works buildings on Empress Road, first mooted in 2015 has now been re-submitted (comments due by 3rd November), earlier this week I decided to photograph the bits that were on public view, so there is a record of the building (for as long as this blog is available).
The building is of interest from a historical point of view for many reasons, not least because of it being the place where a Zeppelin bomb fell in 1916. I've written about this extensively before - in the Loughborough Zeppelin Trail, photos of the factory in this post about a Zeppelin Walk led by a friend of mine in 2014, an account of a series of commemorative plays that took place across town in 2016, a post about a commemorative walk in 2016, and a good friend of mine wrote a guest blogpost about Zeppelin L20. Of course, as a working factory, the business produced machinery that is still in use today, across the country, and probably the world.
Please bear with if the photos take a long time to load - I haven't had time to edit them for the blog.
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| Looking along Empress Road from Great Central Road |
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| Looking along Empress Road |
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| Part of the factory building on Empress Road |
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| Part of the factory on Empress Road |
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| View of part of the factory on Empress Road |
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| Beside Moor Lane bridge |
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| View along the canal |
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| View along the canal |
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| View along the canal |
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| Morris machinery still in action locally |
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