Letchworth, Spirella Corset Factory 1932
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The factory, designed by Cecil Hignett and built between 1912-20, fulfilled Ebenezer Howard's tenet that his Garden City should provide industrial employment and not merely be a dormitory town for London. To William Wallace Kincaid, the American corset manufacturer, Letchworth was the natural choice of site for his first English factory, and it was the city's biggest employer for almost eighty years. With its reinforced concrete and glass structure disguised by brick facings and gabled pavilions, it resembles an updated version of the Arts & Crafts style of architecture.
An extract from Hertfordshire Photographic Memories.
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