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The
Slough Trading Estate founded in
Slough,
Berkshire in 1920, was the UK’s first
Industrial park.
According to the estate's owners and operators, Slough Estates plc, 'Slough Trading Estate comprises 486 acres of commercial property in Slough and provides 7.5 million sq ft of accommodation to 500 businesses and has a working population of circa 20,000 people. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe.' Slough Estates petition to Parliament, Crossrail bill 2005-06 There are over 600 buildings. The Estate is home to 400 tenants from countries including America, Italy, Japan, Germany and Korea supporting 20,000 jobs. Companies using the park include
Centrica plc, Yell Group, Electrolux,
GlaxoSmithKline, Mars, Incorporated, Imperial Chemical Industries Paints, and
Sara Lee. It is also home to important small, medium and large businesses. The first ever
Mars Bar was made there in 1932 and 3,000,000 Mars Bars are produced here every day.
The estate’s power station supplies heat and power to the entire industrial site. It is one of the most environmentally friendly and technologically advanced in Europe and 30,000,000 litres of water can be stored in its reservoirs, pumped straight from their own artesian wells.
Langley Business Park and
Langley Business Centre are other thriving business estates in Slough, with other companies, industries and enterprises found throughout the borough.
History
In June 1918, land to the west of Slough and adjacent to the
Great Western Railway main line, mainly forming part of Cippenham Court Farmp28,
Slough - A Century of Change, Peter Burgess and Judith Hunter, Nonsuch pocket edition, 2005 but also including the site of an isolation hospitalp62,
Around Slough in old photographs, Judith Hunter and Karen Hunter, Budding Books, 1998, was bought by the government to form a motor repair depot for army transport. The depot was intended to receive broken down vehicles by train from the battlefront, repair them, and return them to service. Slough Trading Estate, Everything2.com, accessed 1 January 2007
The project was not regarded as a success. The depot was believed to be so urgent that construction work (eventually by construction company
Sir Robert McAlpine) The Reading 'Mercury' and the Home Front in WW1 began in July 1918 without harvesting the crops on the land, but the site was still under construction when the armistice was agreed in November 1918p 109,
The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973.
Although the depot's fundamental purpose went with the end of the war, Jan Smuts proposed a post war use for the depot which was implemented. Rather than scrapping the many army surplus vehicles, they were sent to Slough for repair prior to sale.p 109,
The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973 Because of this use, for many years (until at least the 1980s), the site was known locally and colloquially as 'the dump', and at the time of the depot's development it was also known as 'The White Elephant'. Relations between management and workforce were so poor that at one point the entire workforce was sacked
Wal's Work, Time Magazine Feb. 20, 1939.
In April 1920 the Government Surplus Disposal Board sold the 2.7 square kilometre (600 acre) site and its contents (17,000 used cars, trucks and motorcycles, and 170,000 square metres (1.8 million sq ft) of covered workshops) for over seven million pounds.
Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, who had effectively established the British operations of the
Ford Motor Company and who had been appointed Assistant Controller of the UK government's Agricultural Machinery Department during the war Ford in Europe: The First Hundred Years, seriouswheels.com, accessed 1 January 2007, and Sir Noel Mobbs, led the group of investors who acquired the depot, establishing the Slough Trading Co. Ltd.
Repair and sale of ex-army vehicles continued until 1925 when the Slough Trading Company Act was passed allowing the company (renamed
Slough Estates Ltd) to establish the world's first Industrial park. The existing army buildings were tenanted as factories, and additional units were built. Those on the A4 road and Farnham Road frontages were designed with fundamentally uniform simple Art Deco offices on the front. Shared facilities were provided for workforce and employers, including a fire station, restaurantp118,
Around Slough in old photographs, Judith Hunter and Karen Hunter, Budding Books, 1998, shops and banks, a large community centre (1937) and the Slough Industrial Health Service (1947).p 109,
The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973
Early businesses established on the trading estate included
Citroën (1926), Global Gillette,
Johnson & Johnson and High Duty Alloysp15,
Memories of Slough, True North Books, 1999. In 1932, they were joined by Mars, Incorporated.
As the Trading Estate grew despite the
Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s people were attracted from all over the country to come and find work in Slough. But the fast increase in population resulted in a shortage of housing.
One solution was the construction of Timbertown,an estate of wooden single storey houses built adjacent to the site occupied by the Community Centre and now occupied by Herschel Grammar School.
From the outside the houses looked like an army barracks, but inside they were spacious and comfortable - with 3 bedrooms, a bathroom, a big kitchen and a living room. At the start Timbertown was well cared for a popular community, with a shop, social hut and even a Sunday school. But the buildings soon started to deteriorate. The wooden houses had never been intended to be permanent and Timbertown was finally demolished in the 1930s to make way for new buildings.
Until 1973, the estate had a railway directly linking the factories to Britain's railway system. A passenger service ran from Paddington railway station and
Slough railway stations to a separate station (accessed by a spur from the main line, separate from the freight access to the estate),map V and caption,
Slough to Newbury, Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Middleton Press, Midhurst, 2000 until 1956picture 80 and caption,
Slough: A Pictorial History, Judith Hunter & Isobel Thompson, Phillimore & Co, Chichester, 1991.
In popular culture
The
Ricky Gervais/
Stephen Merchant comedy
The Office, is set on Slough Trading Estate. The opening sequence shows several locations in Slough and an office building on the Trading Estate where fictional paper merchants
Wernham Hogg are supposedly located.
See also
Notes and References
External links
- Slough Trading Estate Accessed December 31, 2006
- Slough Estates PLC Official Website
The
Slough Trading Estate founded in Slough,
Berkshire in 1920, was the UK’s first Industrial park.
According to the estate's owners and operators, Slough Estates plc, 'Slough Trading Estate comprises 486 acres of commercial property in Slough and provides 7.5 million sq ft of accommodation to 500 businesses and has a working population of circa 20,000 people. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe.' Slough Estates petition to Parliament, Crossrail bill 2005-06 There are over 600 buildings. The Estate is home to 400 tenants from countries including America, Italy, Japan, Germany and Korea supporting 20,000 jobs. Companies using the park include
Centrica plc,
Yell Group,
Electrolux, GlaxoSmithKline, Mars, Incorporated, Imperial Chemical Industries Paints, and
Sara Lee. It is also home to important small, medium and large businesses. The first ever Mars Bar was made there in 1932 and 3,000,000 Mars Bars are produced here every day.
The estate’s power station supplies heat and power to the entire industrial site. It is one of the most environmentally friendly and technologically advanced in Europe and 30,000,000 litres of water can be stored in its reservoirs, pumped straight from their own artesian wells.
Langley Business Park and
Langley Business Centre are other thriving business estates in Slough, with other companies, industries and enterprises found throughout the borough.
History
In June 1918, land to the west of Slough and adjacent to the Great Western Railway main line, mainly forming part of
Cippenham Court Farmp28,
Slough - A Century of Change, Peter Burgess and Judith Hunter, Nonsuch pocket edition, 2005 but also including the site of an isolation hospitalp62,
Around Slough in old photographs, Judith Hunter and Karen Hunter, Budding Books, 1998, was bought by the government to form a motor repair depot for army transport. The depot was intended to receive broken down vehicles by train from the battlefront, repair them, and return them to service. Slough Trading Estate, Everything2.com, accessed 1 January 2007
The project was not regarded as a success. The depot was believed to be so urgent that construction work (eventually by construction company Sir Robert McAlpine) The Reading 'Mercury' and the Home Front in WW1 began in July 1918 without harvesting the crops on the land, but the site was still under construction when the armistice was agreed in November 1918p 109,
The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973.
Although the depot's fundamental purpose went with the end of the war,
Jan Smuts proposed a post war use for the depot which was implemented. Rather than scrapping the many army surplus vehicles, they were sent to Slough for repair prior to sale.p 109,
The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973 Because of this use, for many years (until at least the 1980s), the site was known locally and colloquially as 'the dump', and at the time of the depot's development it was also known as 'The White Elephant'. Relations between management and workforce were so poor that at one point the entire workforce was sacked
Wal's Work, Time Magazine Feb. 20, 1939.
In April 1920 the Government Surplus Disposal Board sold the 2.7 square kilometre (600 acre) site and its contents (17,000 used cars, trucks and motorcycles, and 170,000 square metres (1.8 million sq ft) of covered workshops) for over seven million pounds.
Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, who had effectively established the British operations of the
Ford Motor Company and who had been appointed Assistant Controller of the UK government's Agricultural Machinery Department during the war Ford in Europe: The First Hundred Years, seriouswheels.com, accessed 1 January 2007, and Sir
Noel Mobbs, led the group of investors who acquired the depot, establishing the Slough Trading Co. Ltd.
Repair and sale of ex-army vehicles continued until 1925 when the Slough Trading Company Act was passed allowing the company (renamed Slough Estates Ltd) to establish the world's first Industrial park. The existing army buildings were tenanted as factories, and additional units were built. Those on the
A4 road and Farnham Road frontages were designed with fundamentally uniform simple Art Deco offices on the front. Shared facilities were provided for workforce and employers, including a fire station, restaurantp118,
Around Slough in old photographs, Judith Hunter and Karen Hunter, Budding Books, 1998, shops and banks, a large community centre (1937) and the Slough Industrial Health Service (1947).p 109,
The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, 1973
Early businesses established on the trading estate included
Citroën (1926),
Global Gillette,
Johnson & Johnson and High Duty Alloysp15,
Memories of Slough, True North Books, 1999. In 1932, they were joined by
Mars, Incorporated.
As the Trading Estate grew despite the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s people were attracted from all over the country to come and find work in Slough. But the fast increase in population resulted in a shortage of housing.
One solution was the construction of Timbertown,an estate of wooden single storey houses built adjacent to the site occupied by the Community Centre and now occupied by Herschel Grammar School.
From the outside the houses looked like an army barracks, but inside they were spacious and comfortable - with 3 bedrooms, a bathroom, a big kitchen and a living room. At the start Timbertown was well cared for a popular community, with a shop, social hut and even a Sunday school. But the buildings soon started to deteriorate. The wooden houses had never been intended to be permanent and Timbertown was finally demolished in the 1930s to make way for new buildings.
Until 1973, the estate had a railway directly linking the factories to Britain's railway system. A passenger service ran from
Paddington railway station and Slough railway stations to a separate station (accessed by a spur from the main line, separate from the freight access to the estate),map V and caption,
Slough to Newbury, Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Middleton Press, Midhurst, 2000 until 1956picture 80 and caption,
Slough: A Pictorial History, Judith Hunter & Isobel Thompson, Phillimore & Co, Chichester, 1991.
In popular culture
The
Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant comedy
The Office, is set on Slough Trading Estate. The opening sequence shows several locations in Slough and an office building on the Trading Estate where fictional paper merchants
Wernham Hogg are supposedly located.
See also
Notes and References
External links
- Slough Trading Estate Accessed December 31, 2006
- Slough Estates PLC Official Website
