Mettoy Factory, Fforest Fach, 1972

Description

Aerial photograph of Mettoy Factory, Fforest Fach Industrial Estate, taken 22 June 1972. Click on image to enlarge.
The site was built as a World War 2 'shadow factory'. The Mettoy Company, established in Northampton in 1933, occupied the factory from 1944 onwards, producing pressed metal components for the war effort and later reverting to production of metal toys, from 1956 under the 'Corgi' brand name.
The building is very similar in design to, although considerably smaller than, the factory at Newtown: single storey, almost square in plan with a north lit roof, and fronted by a single storey brick built office block surmounted by a fire-watchers' tower. In February 2000 both buildings were noted as intact and in a variety of light industrial uses.