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  • The Royal Mail's Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) handling some of the 82 million items a day to 27 million UK addresses
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  • Letters sorted by the Royal Mail operated Siemens Integrated Mail Processor operated at Nine Elms sorting office
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  • Letter for Welsh MP Julie Morgan at the House of Commons sorted by the Royal Mail at Nine Elms sorting office.
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  • A Post Office employee hauls a cart full of post onto the station platform on the Mail Rail system. The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003. It ran east-west from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km). It had eight stations, the largest of which was underneath Mount Pleasant, but by 2003 only three stations remained in use because the sorting offices above the other stations had been relocated.
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  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
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  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
    nine_elms_35.jpg
  • An aerial view overlooking the processing depot of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Commercial postage of catalogues, junk mail and brochures pass through this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres such as DIRFT.
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  • Speeding postal worker in the processing depot of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • Sorted letters are grouped in a drawer at Royal Mail's giant warehouse at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Raised from its neighbours is an Air Mail letter addressed to someone called Rodrigues and with stamps if its unknown country. Each letter faces the same direction for ease of viewing in this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
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  • Postal workers play table football in the canteen during a night shift at Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry
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  • Cross-docking sign at goods-in for departing lorries taking nationwide Royal Mail post from DIRFT logistics park in Daventry
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  • Postal workers rest in the canteen during a night shift at Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • A Royal Mail postal box and a background of terraced homes on Royal York Crescent, on 26th December 2019, in Clifton, Bristol, England.
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  • Destination trolleys inside the Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • Postal workers enjoy humour at the Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • Forklift lane stencilled on the floor of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • A Royal Mail postal box and a background of terraced homes on Royal York Crescent, on 26th December 2019, in Clifton, Bristol, England.
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  • Letters about to be sorted by the Royal Mail operated Siemens Integrated Mail Processor operated at Nine Elms sorting office
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  • Red clock hangs from warehouse roof of cross-docking area of of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry
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  • An aerial view overlooking Processing at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Commercial postage of catalogues, junk mail and brochures pass through this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.
    DIRFT191-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • Chalk writing warns letter posters of a freshly-painted Royal Mail postal box in Dulwich Village, on 7th January 2019, in Southwark, London, UK.
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  • Chalk writing warns letter posters of a freshly-painted Royal Mail postal box in Dulwich Village, on 7th January 2019, in Southwark, London, UK.
    wet_postal_box-03-07-01-2019.jpg
  • The shadows of two passing locals approach the tiny Cameron-run post office hut at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. We see in the foreground the freshly painted Royal Mail post box which is lit by early morning sunshine telling us that the next collection is at 2.45pm despite it being 8.50am. This branch serves the local community of this Skye town, close to the Skye Bridge and is not only a place to post letters and packages but to buy miscellaneous supplies like newspapers and food at a time when rural sub-post offices are threatened with closure by a financially-troubled Royal Mail. Small villages like this often say that the post office is the ties its folk together, acting as a nucleus for information about village life. Their closure would therefore mean that the fabric of such remote communities are in jeopardy.
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  • Looking down from the top of a London bus on to the top of a Royal Mail postal box as a lady wearing a red hat walks along the Walworth Road in Southwark, on 9th May 2019, in London, England.
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  • A Royal Mail van drives past the temporary renovation hoarding of luxury brand Louis Vuitton in New Bond Street, on 25th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • A Royal Mail van drives past the temporary renovation hoarding of luxury brand Louis Vuitton in New Bond Street, on 25th February 2019, in London, England.
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  • A Royal Mail lorry speeds up the darkening M1 motorway loaded with parcels and letters.
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  • On the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the official end of WW2) and during the UK's Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, two runners jog towards a heritage Royal Mail post box and a naval ensign flag that hangs from the garden of a corner property in Camberwell, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • A parked red VW camper van parked next to a faded red Royal Mail postal box on a residential street in Herne Hill, London SE24.
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  • A visitor pauses to read the writing on a Royal Mail postal box while walking round the East Anglia Transport Museum, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. A Routemaster double-decker bus in a local bus company colours sits in the sunshine - well-maintained and pristine in the sunshine.
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  • A Royal Mail postman makes a scheduled collection of post from a post box in the busy Piccadilly street in London.
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  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
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  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
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  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
    postman-03-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
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  • A Royal Mail van drives down a slippery residential road in south London during the bad weather covering every part of the UK and known as the 'Beast from the East' because Siberian winds and very low temperatures have blown across western Europe from Russia, on 1st March 2018, in Lambeth, London, England.
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  • A leaning Royal Mail pillar box stands near a leaning tree in Sunray Gardens, on 26th February 2018, in south London, England.
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  • A leaning Royal Mail pillar box stands near a leaning tree in Sunray Gardens, on 26th February 2018, in south London, England.
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  • A leaning Royal Mail pillar box stands near a leaning tree in Sunray Gardens, on 26th February 2018, in south London, England.
    leaning_post_box-01-26-02-2018.jpg
  • A parked red VW camper van parked next to a faded red Royal Mail postal box on a residential street in Herne Hill, London SE24.
    camper_van02-26-04-2016.jpg
  • A visitor pauses to read the writing on a Royal Mail postal box while walking round the East Anglia Transport Museum, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. A Routemaster double-decker bus in a local bus company colours sits in the sunshine - well-maintained and pristine in the sunshine.
    transport_museum01-12-06-1992.jpg
  • A Royal Mail postal worker leans into a post box to empty a batch of letters and parcels, on 20th November 2019, in the City of London, England.
    postman-02-20-11-2019.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus lockdown continues over the May Bank Holiday, the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, the day that Germany officially surrendered in 1945) and neighbours and residents emerge from their homes to party while still observing social distancing rules. A naval Union Jack Ensign flag hangs from a corner property in Camberwell, on 8th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_VE_Day-10-08-05-2020.jpg
  • A 75-page introduction of corporate images by the English photographer Richard Baker. This is a Corporate A3 print and PDF folio. The following pictures are from 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work', a book published in April 2009 by the writer Alain de Botton. His essays and Richard Baker's photography explore occupations, industry and landscape. It covers subjects such as the world of logistics warehouses; career counselling; the landscapes of electricity transmission; the business of river shipping; accountancy; tuna fishing; English couture; biscuit manufacturing; the science of launching rockets and a cross-section of 35mm more editorial thumbnails on pages 72/73 with About Me and Contact details on page 74 of this booklet.
    RichardBaker_corporate_folio.pdf
  • The phone kiosk and postal box still in service and good working order on the Green at Hartest, on 10th July 2020, in Hartest, Suffolk, England.
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  • A Post office delivery van driver is caught  in a shaft of early spring light in a side street in the capital's financial district. This is Lombard Street, originally a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from the part of northern Italy known as Lombardy (larger than the modern region of Lombardy). It is a narrow and usually dark sidestreet near the Bank of England in the heart of what is called the Square Mile - the inner-part and oldest quarter of London occupied first by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Nowadays the City of London is home to banks and financial institutions but also with a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • Closed for winter tourist shed and post box at Lochbuie, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
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  • Red Victorian rural post box o mounted at dry stone wall in Vale of Edale, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire.
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  • A bright red painted door and matching post box on a country cottage in the village of St Mary Hoo, near Halstow on the Kent Thames estuary marshes, potentially threatened by the future London airport.
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  • Man uses his smartphone with his red suitcase near red postal boxes in the heart of City of London's financial district.
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  • The Boathouse on Ulva, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Ulva is a privately owned island with a thriving population of approximately 16 people who are involved variously in traditional sheep and cattle farming, fish farming, oyster farming and tourism. There are no tarmac roads on Ulva, so the main form of transport is quad bikes used by all inhabitants, young and old. The proprietors (the Howard family) are dedicated to creating a balance between the needs of the community and the preservation of one of Scotland’s most unique, beautiful and accessible islands. Ulva is from the Viking “Ullamhdha”, or ‘Nobody Home’. They named the island ‘Ullfur’, their word for ‘Wolf Island’. .. This is a licensed tea-room where you can have delicious home cooked food, hot or cold drinks and choose from a range of specialities (such as Ulva's own oysters, marinated salmon etc.) based on locally available ingredients. In fact you can just have a cup of tea or you can have a three course meal at any time from 9am to about 4.30pm. There is also a range of fine quality wines to complement your choice from the varied menu. The restaurant is now open on Friday evenings during the summer season - booking essential. Tel: 01688 500241/500226...(http://www.theboathouseulva.co.uk/)..
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  • Post box at junction of B8035 and A849 roads near Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
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  • Bus stop on the junction of B8035 and A849 roads near Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
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  • The hands and fingers of an anonymous customer seen through a city Post Office window, behind a pension savings ad.
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  • Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) occupy an official picket line outside the sorting office at Mount Pleasant  while staging their nationwide two-day strike.
    postal_strike04-22-10-2009.jpg
  • Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) occupy an official picket line outside the sorting office at Mount Pleasant  while staging their nationwide two-day strike.
    postal_strike03-22-10-2009.jpg
  • Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) occupy an official picket line outside the sorting office at Mount Pleasant  while staging their nationwide two-day strike.
    postal_strike02-22-10-2009.jpg
  • Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) occupy an official picket line outside the sorting office at Mount Pleasant  while staging their nationwide two-day strike.
    postal_strike01-22-10-2009.jpg
  • The Boathouse on Ulva, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Ulva is a privately owned island with a thriving population of approximately 16 people who are involved variously in traditional sheep and cattle farming, fish farming, oyster farming and tourism. There are no tarmac roads on Ulva, so the main form of transport is quad bikes used by all inhabitants, young and old. The proprietors (the Howard family) are dedicated to creating a balance between the needs of the community and the preservation of one of Scotland’s most unique, beautiful and accessible islands. Ulva is from the Viking “Ullamhdha”, or ‘Nobody Home’. They named the island ‘Ullfur’, their word for ‘Wolf Island’. .. This is a licensed tea-room where you can have delicious home cooked food, hot or cold drinks and choose from a range of specialities (such as Ulva's own oysters, marinated salmon etc.) based on locally available ingredients. In fact you can just have a cup of tea or you can have a three course meal at any time from 9am to about 4.30pm. There is also a range of fine quality wines to complement your choice from the varied menu. The restaurant is now open on Friday evenings during the summer season - booking essential. Tel: 01688 500241/500226...(http://www.theboathouseulva.co.uk/)..
    isle_of_mull228-20-11-2011.jpg
  • While crossing the road with a Royal Mail Parcelforce van in the road of the capital's financial district, a UPS courier is helped by a lady to pick up dropped parcels, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
    dropped_delivery-02-05-10-2017.jpg
  • While crossing the road with a Royal Mail Parcelforce van in the road of the capital's financial district, a UPS courier is helped by a lady to pick up dropped parcels, on 5th October, 2017, in the City of London, England.
    dropped_delivery-01-05-10-2017.jpg
  • Poster boy advertising the Royal Mail's post office in south London as many branches close due to recession.
    closed_postoffice02-21-05-2010.jpg
  • Alongside the A5 highway, an industrial landscape is illuminated in light from roadside street-lighting. Reeds are in the foreground in front of a giant generic warehouse that glows from its own territory. Grass is next to the crash-barrier and faint mist is seen on this cold winter night at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • The form of a giant generic warehouse glows from ambient light at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bare trees without foliage are seen in the foreground on this cold winter night. We see the building low in the picture and the sky graduates from light into near darkness. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
    DIRFT057-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
    DIRFT079-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • Seen from the middle of the road, an empty highway landscape is seen at night alongside a giant generic warehouse wall at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. The tarmac is dark and the newly-painted white painted lines stand out. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • Pointing towards the viewer and the bottom of the picture near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow directs traffic flow at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse walls shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
    DIRFT087-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
    DIRFT089-20-02-2007 .jpg
  • In front of empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from right to left in the foreground at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. A bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining  on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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