Date:December 2023
Description:On the right there are two show-homes created for a new housing development named Victoria Place, off Ranshaw Drive in Stafford. At the time of this photograph new houses are being built behind the show-homes on part of the former Lichfield Road, Main Works site of an electrical engineering works, which was renowned for its electrical products including generators, transformers and switchgear. Over the years the Company was known as Siemens, English Electric, GEC Power Engineering, GEC Alsthom, and then ALSTOM with global HQ in Paris and finally on 2 November 2015 the Stafford Grid and Power Businesses became part of GE (General Electric, an American Company). In earlier years there was a separate major redevelopment on another part of the Lichfield Road site when in 2006 the Main Offices and a large portion of the Main Works buildings were demolished and replaced by The Hough Retail Park. On the left there is a part view of the rear of several of the retail units. The remainder of the Main Works buildings were demolished in the autumn of 2020 and the site was completely flattened (February 2021), to make way for the new housing estate. On a neighbouring site the Transformer Works remains and is still operational (April 2024) as part of the GE (General Electric) group.
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Around the turn of the 20th Century, following their move from Woolwich to Stafford, ...
Pictured above are employees outside the rear of the Main Offices off Lichfield ...
This large transformer is pictured parked outside the English Electric Transformer ...
During the ownership of Siemens, English Electric Co., GEC and Alstom this building ...
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On the right there are two show-homes created for a new housing development named Victoria Place, off ...
During the ownership of Siemens, English Electric Co., GEC and Alstom this building was known as Main ...
The Main Entrance, halfway through the demolition. On the right is a glimpse of the Site Fire Station ...
This photograph was taken from the first floor of the Alstom Transformer Offices. The Main Offices building ...
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Creators: Mr Graham Jones - Creator
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