The last car has been removed from a Derby scrapyard with a 104-year history and crushed according to a report at bbc.co.uk.
After over a century of operation, Albert Looms announced its closure in May, prompting an outpouring of support from customers. The seven-acre Spondon site began winding down, with the public allowed on-site for the last time at the start of July.
Since then, the clean-up of the Megaloughton Lane site has been ongoing, with Albert Looms’ remaining stock sold off “as a job lot.” On Tuesday, the last car – a cream-coloured Austin – was lifted off the yard and flattened.
Steve Kirk, operations manager at Albert Looms, reflected:
“It’s strange, hard to put into words how it feels. The word surreal might fit, seeing the yard just as seven acres of land now.
Pretty much everything is cleared, but there’s still lots to do. Being busy stops me thinking about it too much.
We’re still here, though. Everyone gets made redundant in August, and all the staff who wanted to find jobs have walked into one, but we’re still doing the last bits.
We knew it had to happen, and it’s happened in the right way, to the right timings, which has been good.”
Albert Looms began in 1920, originally dealing in demolition and dismantling railway rolling stock, moving into car dismantling and parts in the early 1970s.
Source bbc.co.uk
