The 31 acre site employed hundreds of workers making coats, car mats, rugs, boots and slippers, flying jackets for the RAF in WWII and boots for Hillary’s Everest Expedition. The Beckery estate was originally home to a tannery, which was taken over in 1870 by Clarks of Street, who in partnership with Morlands, began producing sheepskin rugs and other goods. It seemed their only future was to be demolished, erasing more than a century of Glastonbury’s industrial heritage. Buildings which had once been home to the town’s thriving sheepskin industry stood derelict, vandalised and crumbling. Only a few years ago, in the early 1990’s, there was an empty industrial wasteland on the edge of Glastonbury. Dereliction in the past, now Aldi occupies this space
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