EPW041807 ENGLAND (1933). The Michelin Tyre Co Manufactury at Boothen, Stoke-on-Trent, 1933
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Details
| Title | [EPW041807] The Michelin Tyre Co Manufactury at Boothen, Stoke-on-Trent, 1933 |
| Reference | EPW041807 |
| Date | June-1933 |
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| Place name | STOKE-ON-TRENT |
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| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 387280, 343786 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -2.1895172153943, 52.990945595939 |
| National Grid Reference | SJ873438 |
Pins
 The perimeter wall, following the line of the defunct Newcastle Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal |
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| A rail wagon at the loading quay |
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| A line of railway wagons. |
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| The central laboratory - GLab |
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| Chester Gate - the main site entrance at this date. |
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| Oakhill Gate, a pedestrian-only entrance to the site. |
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| Building 12 - Service GV, later XH - production of the textile cords for inclusion in rubberised fabrics (basically a spinning operation). |
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| Engineering workshops - mechanical and electrical. |
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| Main boiler house - Building 5 - all coal-fired boilers at this time |
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| Building 4 - Service Z - rubber mixing department (only natural rubber at this time - later it was to include synthetic rubbers). |
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| Building 13 - Service Y - production of cycle tyres and inner tubes for cycles, motorcycles, cars and trucks, also truck flaps and miscellaneous products. |
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| Building 1 - Service O - main tyre production workshop for motorcycle, car and truck tyres. |
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| Bolton Gate. At this date it was a relatively minor entrance but, by the 1960s, it had become the site's prime vehicular entrance. |
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| Main electricity sub-station. This still exists as a building in 2014, but it no longer contains any equipment. |
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| Campbell Road (now closed at its southern end). |
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| Sideway Road (pronounced Sid-a-way). |
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| The all-concrete water tower, demolished in 1967. The reservoir at the top carried the word 'Michelin' flanked by depictions of Bibendum (the Michelin Man) and was illuminated at night. |
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| Administration building - Building 10 - built in 1929 and extended by an extra storey in 1956. |
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| Tyre warehouse - Building 14 - built in 1928 with seven storeys and soon after extended to nine. |
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| Always referred to as the Steel House by Michelin employees, it housed various personnel functions over the years, including the company's lending library. The building was a 'Weir' house, one of the Government's various exercises in prefabricated housing after the Great War. |
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| The Old Plough public house, used by Michelin as a recruiting office when the licence was transferred to the (new) Plough pub, built on Campbell Road in 1935. |
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Friday 1st of August 2014 04:37:50 PM |
| Boothen Farm, demolished when the Michelin Athletic Clubhouse was built here in 1935. |
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User Comment Contributions
This is an image of particular interest: it was used in Michelin's 1955 anniversary brochure (50 years since Michelin's UK company was established). The interest is in the way that the image was 'doctored' when published: the tyre warehouse (centre right) was doubled in size, the rubber production workshops were expanded (centre) and the new steel cord production buildings that had been built, were added! |
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