A view showing four sugar silos and factory buildings at Bury St Edmunds Sugar Beet Factory, with railway tracks and wagons in the foreground

Date:
Nov 1973
Location:
Bury St Edmunds Sugar Beet Factory, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk
Reference:
JLP01/10/01284
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

A sugar factory began operating at Bury St Edmunds in 1924. In 1972 Laing were awarded the contract to build four sugar silos and a new beet handling plant for the British Sugar Corporation at Bury St Edmunds. The new silos made the factory the largest of its kind in Europe.

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: JLP01/10 John Laing Photographic Collection Colour Negatives and Transparencies; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection

Keywords

Late 20th Century Sugar Silo, 20th Century Sugar Refinery, Industrial Heritage