The Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd started construction of a factory on a green field site at Salfords near Redhill. Two buildings were initially erected and finished in 1900 to enable the testing, adjusting, and repairing of Monotype machines arriving from the USA, as well as permitting the manufacture of certain component parts.
The current Perrywood Business Park Gate House now lays to the left of the picture. The Monotype pond is in the foreground and still exists today. Rumour is that the clay was extracted from here for the bricks to construct the buildings, leaving the pond behind (recently confirmed from minutes of a company meeting in 1887)
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