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Alstom, Willans Works, Rugby
by Chris Allen
Completed in 1897 for Willans & Robinson and originally known as Willans Works. they originally built the high speed central valve steam engine here but from the 1900s onwards started to build steam turbines and still do so. The tower... (more)
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Footpath around the old quarry
The footpath passes around the north side of the old quarry pit beside the Rugby - Coventry railway. The security fencing prevents access either to railway property or the dangerous edge of the quarry, but it hardly makes for an attractive... (more)
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View from Rugby (now Cemex) Cement Tower
The view was taken from the top of the cement tower over looking the packing plant and onward over Somers Road Industrial Estate. Lawford road can be clearly seen going off into Rugby town centre.
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New Bilton-Lawford Court
by Ian Rob
Modern housing off Lawford Road, built on the site of a former scrapyard close to the cement works.
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Shakespeare Buildings, Lawford Road, Rugby
The first floor tablet on the corner tells us the name and date (1900), together with an impression of the bard - see SP4975 : Tablet on Shakespeare Buildings, Rugby.
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Co-op on Corner of Lawford Road and Campbell St
by David Walton
Co-op Late Store before it was refurbished.
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Former Rugby-Leamington railway looking east from level crossing
by Andy F
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Kwik Fit entrance on Lawford Road, New Bilton, Rugby
by David Howard
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Rugby-Little Pennington Street
by Ian Rob
New housing has replaced the former engineering works.SP4975 : Rugby- Little Pennington Street
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New block of flats, Lawford Road, Rugby (2)
by Andy F
'First Place' Link is an estate of apartment blocks built by Merlion Homes at Lawford Road, Rugby.
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Rugby - New Bilton
by Ian Rob
Gladstone Street, the point at which this was taken was an entrance to GEC Turbine Generators (Alstom).The Company recently sold off a large plot of derelict land and the new housing starts here.
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Preserved steam engine, Rugby
by Chris Allen
On a mezzanine in the turbine erecting shop at the Willans Works of Alsthom (formerly GEC). This was a little museum area with nothing of commercial sensitivity. The turbines below could not be photographed.
The Willans engine was a... (more)
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