Manufacturing

It is sometimes said that manufacturing is dying in this country, that we have abandoned the field to the Chinese. So I am pleased to be able to present evidence of manufacturing activity on the Longmead industrial estate. Evidence of some serious looking engineering equipment being moved either in or out.

Also that the corner site between what was Epsom Coaches (now Quality Line, a subsidiary of a French bus company, the family of the founder of Epsom Coaches having sold out shortly after he died) and the dump, previously used as a distribution centre by Target then City Link (or the other way around), has now been redeveloped and reoccupied by Southern Gas Networks. Rather grandly called the 'Epsom Park/Surrey Depot/London West Replacement Depot'. The curious are invited to phone Freephone 0800 111 999.

Redevelopment included refurbished shed, new concrete standing around the shed, fancy gates and a smart new fence. Plenty of security. All in all a great improvement on what we had had before, at least for the last few years.

PS: the web site of the French bus company concerned looks to feature, today anyway, the very bit of Paris we stayed in when we were last there, near ten years ago, complete with overground tube line. See references 1 and 2. While Bing suggests that the little farm obscurely mentioned at the end of reference 2 is probably 'La Petite Ferme', 32, rue de Frémicourt, Paris, 75015. Looks about right in both position and picture.

Reference 1: https://www.ratp.fr/en.

Reference 2: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=paris+15e+concluded.