Cowbridge House
51°34′37″N 2°05′00″W / 51.5770°N 2.0833°W
Cowbridge House, 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) 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]
References
[edit]- ^ Cowbridge House. Lost Heritage. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ^ Malmesbury's Secret Factory. BBC, 1 September 2004. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ^ Browning, B (2005). EKCO's of Cowbridge: House and War Factory. Cowbridge Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9551842-0-8.
- ^ Simpson, Gordon (1 March 2007). "Historic house demolished". The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
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- Cowbridge House at the National Archives