How Corby Helped Win The War
A Memory of Corby.
This photograph shows the now-demolished Pluto pub at Corby, which used to stand on Gainsborough Road. Its name was a reminder of a significant part played by the former Steel Works at Corby in the war effort during the Second World War. PLUTO was an acronym formed from the initial letters of ‘Pipe Line Under The Ocean’, the codename for the production of hundreds of miles of steel tubing at Corby which was used for conveying fuel across the English Channel to the Allied Forces in Europe, following the D-Day landings in 1944.
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