In pictures: Leamington Ford factory to be demolished?

Permission granted for Morrisons supermarket on former Ford Foundry site in Leamington


A computer image of the proposed Morrison's foodstore

Planning permission has been granted to build a Morrisons supermarket and ‘landmark’ office building on the site of the former Ford Foundry in Leamington.

A Warwick District Council planning committee voted by a majority of nine to one in favour of the proposal at a meeting at Leamington town hall last night (Tuesday).

The site in Princess Drive will also include a large hotel while outline permission for offices, industrial buildings and parkland has also been granted.

Take a last look at the final remains of the iconic Ford Foundry site in Leamington.



The former cathedral to quality engineering now lies derelict and is being demolished.

Amateur photographer Jeff Davies took these haunting pictures including of two well-known signs on the buildings off Old Warwick Road.

One sign still fixed above the large entrance reads “Quality begins here”, while another reads “Quality, who cares wins”.



Jeff, of Lillington Road, Leamington, said: “I quite often drive past and think it’s sad as it used to be quite a landmark.

“It just really struck me, looking at those signs while everything around them was being demolished.”

About 400 workers were laid off when the foundry was shut in 2007. Two days after these pictures were taken the building was demolished.

Jeff, 61, worked in the motor industry for 40 years.

He has photographed factories at Ryton and Humber Road in the city as well as the Longbridge car plant in Birmingham.

Memories of The Imperial Foundry in better times











All sourced : www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk

Good find Rebbonk!