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Simonstone, Lancashire
Simonstone is a small village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,154. It is about 4 miles (6 km) west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill and Clitheroe along the A671 road. The village adjoins the village of Read, Lancashire and neighbours Padiham.
St Peter's CE Church is the local Church of England building in the village and was founded in 1841. The interior of the building is modern and part is also used as the school hall and gym during the week. The building dates from 1879 and was originally a National School.
Simonstone railway station was south of the village and closed in 1957.
The Higher Trapp Hotel is part of the Best Western chain of hotels. It was originally built in the early 1900s as a private house, and now converted into a country hotel with 29 bedrooms.
Granville Technology Group was based in the village, until its closure in 2005.
Mullard had a television tube factory, largely a glassmaking factory, from 1955, employing 3,000 by 1974. Cubitts built a new factory from 1955-56. The automatic plant opened in April 1961, being similar to the Philips plant in Eindhoven.
A new plant was installed for colour tubes from 1967. By the end of 1968, 150,000 colour screens would be made. It was 44 acres. In late 1970, Mullard started construction of another colour tube factory at Belmont, County Durham, costing £2.5m, which opened in 1972. It made 2m colour tubes by late 1974. Black and white production ended in 1975. Mullard had other plants at Southampton. The Southampton site, on the Millbrook Trading Estate, of Mullard developed infrared detectors; part of this moved to NXP Semiconductors at Romsey.
The site was loss-making by 1976. By 1977 Mullard was the only television tube manufacturer in the UK. The industry was represented by the Radio Industry Council.
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Simonstone, Lancashire
Simonstone is a small village and civil parish in the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,154. It is about 4 miles (6 km) west of Burnley and south of Pendle Hill and Clitheroe along the A671 road. The village adjoins the village of Read, Lancashire and neighbours Padiham.
St Peter's CE Church is the local Church of England building in the village and was founded in 1841. The interior of the building is modern and part is also used as the school hall and gym during the week. The building dates from 1879 and was originally a National School.
Simonstone railway station was south of the village and closed in 1957.
The Higher Trapp Hotel is part of the Best Western chain of hotels. It was originally built in the early 1900s as a private house, and now converted into a country hotel with 29 bedrooms.
Granville Technology Group was based in the village, until its closure in 2005.
Mullard had a television tube factory, largely a glassmaking factory, from 1955, employing 3,000 by 1974. Cubitts built a new factory from 1955-56. The automatic plant opened in April 1961, being similar to the Philips plant in Eindhoven.
A new plant was installed for colour tubes from 1967. By the end of 1968, 150,000 colour screens would be made. It was 44 acres. In late 1970, Mullard started construction of another colour tube factory at Belmont, County Durham, costing £2.5m, which opened in 1972. It made 2m colour tubes by late 1974. Black and white production ended in 1975. Mullard had other plants at Southampton. The Southampton site, on the Millbrook Trading Estate, of Mullard developed infrared detectors; part of this moved to NXP Semiconductors at Romsey.
The site was loss-making by 1976. By 1977 Mullard was the only television tube manufacturer in the UK. The industry was represented by the Radio Industry Council.
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