1928 An Aerial View of the Waterlows Print Works Upper Houghton

An aerial view of Warterlow's Print Works, Geroge Street/Printer's Way Dunstable.

"The Dunstable plant was just one of a number of Waterlow factories .... The company took the decision to expand into Dunstable in 1891 and purchased a 13-acre site here. The town was chosen rather than other possible sites in Hatfield, St Albans and Arlesey because the decline in Dunstable’s straw plaiting industry meant there was ample supply of cheap female labour available.

The company has now vanished from the Dunstable landscape. Robert Maxwell took control of it in 1982 and after a series of mergers his businesses went into administration in 1991. The huge Dunstable factory was demolished. Finally, Waterlow and Sons Ltd was wound up in January 2009." John Buckledee.

The works were in Upper Houghton when built.

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