An aerial view of the Wall's Ice Cream Factory from the north-east, showing the wafer factory, cold store, production block and workshop block

Date:: 23 May 1960

Location:: Wall's Ice Cream Factory, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Reference:: JLP01/01/042/27

Type:: Photograph (Print)

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Description

Work began in February 1959 on a new factory for T. Walls and Sons Limited on a 30 acre site at Barnwood. The £2 million project comprised buildings including the production block, workshops, offices, a canteen, boiler house, cold store, water tower, and engineers' shop. The caption below this photograph reads: "WALLS FACTORY, GLOUCESTER. Aerial view."

This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.

Content

This is part of the Volume: JLP01/01/042 Wall's ice cream factory, Gloucester; within the Series: JLP01/01 John Laing Photographic Collection Project Albums; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

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Keywords

Mid 20th Century Factory, Mid 20th Century Food Processing Plant, Aerial View, Construction, Food And Drink