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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Thank you for that Philip...I was beginning to wonder if I had dreamed it.
No-one I know can remember it being that.
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No Margaret, you are not dreaming, I am not quite sure if the Factory was built before or just after the start of the war. I understand it was built by Bristol. I knew a bricklayer who lost an eye whilst working on the building. Bristol also built the flat rooftop brick houses in Gloucester Avenue Accrington which were known locally as the Bristol houses, for their workers. After the war when Bristol moved out of the factory, it was taken over by English Electric. The houses in Gloucester Ave. were taken over by Accrington Corporation and rented out to their clients.