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This picture brought back some memories for me, since I worked here (my first proper job!) for nearly four years in the mid to late 1990s. I started in the quality control lab, then moved down to the milk processing room where I worked in a... (more)

Nothing remains now of the former Crudgington Creamery, seen in 2005 as SJ6218 : Creamery, and whose demolition has been so poignantly recorded in some of these pictures:- SJ6218 : Last remnants of Crudgington creamery SJ6218 : Another view of Crudgington creamery SJ6218 : Security hut at Dairy Crest, Crudgington

Dairycrest creamery at Crudgington near Telford.

Somehow Crudgington sounds like an appropriate location for a creamery. This plant produces butter and similar spreads for retail use, as well as conducting related research.

The Dairy Crest flag - probably the very same one which flew when I worked here nearly twenty years ago - still flies from the flagpole which stands in front of where the canteen and offices used to be. It's looking a bit the worse for... (more)

The milk silos - six of them - filled the gap between the remains of the process room in the centre of the shot. In the foreground is the staff car park, and between that and the process room was the intake bay where the milk tankers used... (more)

Crudgington once had a railway station, on the Wellington & Drayton Railway which was opened in 1867 and operated under the auspices of the Great Western Railway. Traffic was never heavy, although the line was used for diversionary... (more)

This was the only part of the site still being used for its original purpose when I visited! The last stages of demolition were just being completed, prior to the site being redeveloped as housing. Once upon a time, the Dairy Crest plant... (more)

Presumably the remains of some agricultural building or vehicle parking area in the field.