The steel framed roof of a sugar silo under construction at Allscott Sugar Beet Factory

Date:
30 Aug 1961
Location:
Allscott Sugar Beet Factory, Wrockwardine, Allscott, Telford and Wrekin
Reference:
JLP01/08/060793
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

A sugar beet factory was at Allscott from 1927 until it closed in 2007. Laing built two sugar silos here in 1961 for the British Sugar Corporation who were the owners of the site. Each silo was able to store 10,000 tons of granulated sugar and at the time they were constructed, they were the tallest that Laing had built so far using sliding formwork.

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 Series: JLP01/08 John Laing Photographic Collection Black and White Negatives; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection

Keywords

Mid 20th Century Sugar Silo, Construction