Photos from the old Imperial Tobacco factory show work being carried out after a £50m deal was struck with a property developer that could lead to the creation of more than 1000 jobs. It will soon be home to high quality industrial and logistics space and is expected to be completed by 2023.
Imperial Tobacco began operating on the site in the early 1970s but after moving to Europe in 2016, the 'Horizon' factory began to be demolished in 2019. At peak operation the factory employed more than 7,000 people and produced billions of cigarettes every year.
