Herbert Morris Empress Road

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.

Looking along Empress Road from Great Central Road

Looking along Empress Road

Part of the factory building on Empress Road

Part of the factory on Empress Road

View of part of the factory on Empress Road

Beside Moor Lane bridge

View along the canal

View along the canal

View along the canal

Morris machinery still in action locally

____________________________________

posted by lynneaboutloughborough

With apologies for typos which are all mine!

_______________________________________________

Thank you for reading this blog. You are welcome to quote passages from any of my posts, with appropriate credit. The correct citation for this looks as follows:

Dyer, Lynne (2022). Herbert Morris Empress Road. Available from: https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2022/10/herbert-morris-empress-road.html [Accessed 28 October 2022]

Take down policy:

I post no pictures that are not my own, unless I have express permission so to do. All text is my own, and not copied from any other information sources, printed or electronic, unless identified and credited as such. If you find I have posted something in contravention of these statements, or if there are photographs of you which you would prefer not to be here, please contact me at the address listed on the About Me page, and I will remove these.

Blog archive and tags:

If you are viewing this blog in mobile format, you will not be able to easily access the blog archive, or the clickable links to various topics. These can be accessed if you scroll to the bottom of the page, and click 'View Web Version'. Alternatively, there is also a complete list of posts, which when clicked will take you to the page you are interested in.  

 

Thank you for reading this blog. 

Lynne