I contact the local historian, Philip Sherwood. He pointed me to this website:
http://www.theoldvinylfactory.com/
The website seems to be a marketing arm of whatever group is re-developing the old EMI plant site.
Apparently. no more pressing equipment is there and no more LP pressing takes place there. I wonder
what happened to the old presses?
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "CJB" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Gramophone Factories at Hayes, Middlesex
> One person whom you could email is David Brough whose job is to
> promote local businesses in Hayes. He's at:
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Also try Hayes News on Yahoo Groups
>
> https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hayesmiddx3/conversations/topics/317
>
> And the Hayes Gazzette at
>
> http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/all-about/hayes
>
> Hayes FM (streamed?)
>
> http://hayesfm.org.uk/
> http://hayesfm.org.uk/index.php/contact-b
>
> I'll go round to the Old Vinyl Factory on Monday and see if there's
> anyone around.
>
> Chris B.
>
>
> On 27/09/2015, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Please do report back. I'd like to know definitively so I can update my
>> vinyl plant list.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "CJB" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 4:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Gramophone Factories at Hayes, Middlesex
>>
>>
>>>I live near there - I will find out. CJB
>>>
>>> On 26/09/2015, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Right, stories actually showing the plant are 2009 vintage. I think it
>>>> failed as a business in that
>>>> location.
>>>>
>>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "CJB" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 5:43 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Gramophone Factories at Hayes, Middlesex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> See
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/4436558/Vinyl-The-business-duo-who-believe-its-got-a-big-part-to-play-in-musics-future.html
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.analogplanet.com/content/emi-pressing-plant-its-hayes-day-harrison-promo-video-new-box-set
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/sixties/emirevisited/alansvisit.html
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/sixties/emirevisited/alansvisit.html
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=118733
>>>>>
>>>>> CJB
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26/09/2015, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>> As recently as 2012, there was a company called The Vinyl Factory
>>>>>> actually
>>>>>> making LP records at the
>>>>>> old EMI plant there. Apparently, they are no longer in business. I
>>>>>> hope
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> presses were sold to
>>>>>> someone still pressing records. The company's former website seems to
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> some sort of vinyl fanzine
>>>>>> or blog:
>>>>>> http://www.thevinylfactory.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "CJB" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 4:51 PM
>>>>>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Gramophone Factories at Hayes, Middlesex
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Quite a few gramophone factories were situated at Hayes. Most have
>>>>>>> now
>>>>>>> been demolished although the Old Vinyl Factory seems to be lingering
>>>>>>> on. It is proposed that it becomes an arts centre.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Meanwhile the urbex folk have visited the site and there are photos
>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/the-old-vinyl-factory-hayes.t71670
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.cathedralgroup.com/current-projects/hayes/
>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Vinyl_Factory
>>>>>>> http://www.theoldvinylfactory.com/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/thorn-emi-hayes-16-01-07.t7800
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CJB
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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