The Gillette factory was designed in 1937 by the relatively undistinguished architect Sir Banister Fletcher, when he was 71. The illustrious critic Nikolaus Pevsner wrote dismissively of its incongruous, timidly modernistic grandeur but it outshines most commercial structures. Since Gillette moved production to eastern Europe the building has lain empty and various grand plans for its future have repeatedly come to nothing.

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