Cowbridge House Explained
Cowbridge House, NaNmiles southeast of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, was an 18th-century country house that was demolished in 2007.[1]
During the Second World War, the EKCO company used the house as a shadow factory for the manufacture of radar equipment.[2] The factory continued after the war, producing radio and telecommunications equipment;[3] the company was taken over by Pye TMC and then Philips, and later became part of AT&T. The site was in use as offices until 2004 when the owners, Lucent Technologies, moved their operations to Swindon. Subsequently the site was redeveloped for housing.[4]
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Notes and References
- http://www.lostheritage.org.uk/houses/lh_wiltshire_cowbridgehouse_info_gallery.html Cowbridge House.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2004/09/01/entertainment_days_out_cowbridge_feature.shtml Malmesbury's Secret Factory.
- Browning, B (2005). EKCO's of Cowbridge: House and War Factory. Cowbridge Publishing. .
- Web site: Historic house demolished. Simpson. Gordon. 1 March 2007. The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200223170653/https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/1228087.historic-house-demolished/ . 23 February 2020 . 2020-02-23.
