LMS Scientific Research Labs, Derby - Planning Application to demolish Hartley House
 

There is a Planning Application to demolish the 1935 LMS Scientific Research Laboratories, 500 London Road, Derby DE24 8BQ known to all as Hartley House

Its importance, particularly to Derby, was its position midway between the pioneering work of the nineteenth century and the opening of the Research Department across the road that developed the HSFV1, the APT and the HST

They wish to build in place of it, an Al-Madinah Education Trust School.


If you would like to try and save this historic 1935 LMS building, please vent your disaproval of the proposed demolition and historic loss, to Derby City Council, before Monday 4th March 2013 on this link:Application Comment Form

Here's a better view of the building in question. It can be seen to be a virtually unaltered example of mid-thirties industrial architecture.

(Reproduced for the purpose of review and discussiion from Marsden C.J (1989) 25 Years of Railway Research,Yeovil:Haynes Publishing Group)