Hi Sheila,
yes, indeed - that's certainly the kind of thing. Do you know anything
more about this industry?
Peter
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> Hertfordshire is not a county that is readily associated with early
> industrialisation, much less the manufacture of silk ... The silk mill at
> St Albans still exists as a block of apartments, the silk mill at
> Redbourn
> was taken over by Brooke Bond, and the silk mill at Tring is, I believe,
> still in use as a factory/workshop ~ but memory of the original use of
> these buildings has already faded. Few people, even among members of
> local
> history societies, know of their past importance. Is that the sort of
> building you had in mind?
>
> Sheila Jennings
>
> On May 25 2005, Peter Higginbotham wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest any "buildings with a secret history" that they know
>> about, i.e. ones that used to be used for something interesting or
>> unusual but which now goes forgotten or unremarked by people who walk
>> past them every day, or perhaps even work inside them?
>> Thanks
>> Petre Higginbotham
>>
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