Post War Development
The Royal Ordnance Factory closed completely in 1957. However with a boom in the construction trade and many others in the immediate post war years, the site found many new industries requiring the space it could offer.
George Moore (founder of Moores Furniture Group) bought the site near Wetherby in 1960s, converting it into a trading estate.
A major development on the estate (and certainly the biggest employer) is the British Library lending division. This is the British Library's second site, the St Pancras site in Central London is the main site. The British Library Boston Spa, as it is known, is housed in a large eight storey concrete building (with windows set in narrow slits to avoid light damage to the books) and many smaller, with newer buildings set around it.
Moores Furniture Group furniture factory is situated on the estate, as is a Leeds City Council household recycling centre and a sewage works. There are many other small businesses situated on the estate.
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