Fields into Factories: the impact on the rural landscape of Britain’s expanded war industry, 1936–1945

Photo courtesy of Allan King, taken by Derek Hurst

Fields into Factories: the British State built approximately 1,000 new industrial sites to produce materials for Britain's Second World War Effort, predominantly in rural areas or on the urban periphery; the vast majority of sites never returned to their pre-war use. This presentation will look at the impact on the rural landscape of this aspect of Britain’s war effort, using those sites which were built in Scotland as examples.