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Should have spotted the missing chimney stacks on the Boiler House - which was also being demolished. Were North Side Electricians in the basement of that building?

If my rusty and fading memory is correct all this happened around the time the sports field, club, bowling greens, rifle range etc were sold off?

Hi Mark, You mean the 'accident' with the crane and wrecking ball?

Commercial Offices. At the time, if my memory is correct, it was home to the mainframe computer system, may have been a few other departments still there, but I think some of the upper floors were out of bounds by now.

Motorcycle race tyres were made in the Birmingham motorsport factory and well as car race tyres. We also made a range historic crossply tyres for cars first produced from the Veteran period right up to the 1960's, which included beaded edge or 'clincher' tyres. The factory was set up to be...

The same thing happened more recently. Goodyear had taken over Cooper Tire in 2021. Cooper Tire were the American owners of Avon Tyres based in Melksham, Wiltshire. Of course it was easy to predict what would happen and the Avon tyre factory was closed down at the end of 2023. Another nail...

The term "Fort Dunlop" referred to the entire site, not just the large building visible from the M6, which to everyone who worked there was known simply as 'Base Stores'. Unfortunately property developers do not take much notice of historical accuracy. Now the only tyres that are produced on...

The motorsport factory, shown as Tyre 8 on the plan in the booklet survived until 2014 when it succumbed to JLR taking over the lease and basically throwing us off the site then demolishing the factory, warehouse and offices. Production of radial car race tyres were transferred to Hanau in...