Duston, British Timken c.1955
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Just east of the village, where Main Road curves towards Bants Lane, stands this large factory, which employed over 3,000 people in the 1960s. The two-storey office ranges screen the vast factory behind, in which bearings and specialist steel castings and fabrications are made (Northampton was not just boot and shoe facto- ries). British Timken is, in the modern way of things, now just known as Timken. Although the building now has new windows without glazing bars, these elegant offices with their slightly higher projecting pavilions remain as a tribute to the architectural quality and care that could be given to such buildings in the 1930s.
An extract from Northampton Town and City Memories.
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