Fibres Research Centre
Textiles Research Centre in Harrogate, North Yorkshire
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Location within North Yorkshire
The Fibres Research Centre was a research centre of ICI in Harrogate in North Yorkshire. The site today is a redeveloped business park.
History
ICI Fibres was formed on 1 April 1956, and all textile research for ICI moved to Harrogate.
The fibres were made by ICI at a plant at Kilroot in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.[2]
Structure
It was sited in the south-west of North Yorkshire.
See also
- Winnington Laboratory
References
External links
- Harrogate: Boardroom of the North
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Ceremonial county of North Yorkshire
Yorkshire Portal
- Middlesbrough
- North Yorkshire
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Stockton-on-Tees (part)
- York
(cities in italics)
- Bedale
- Bentham
- Boroughbridge
- Catterick Garrison
- Colburn
- Easingwold
- Eastfield
- Eston
- Filey
- Grassington
- Guisborough
- Harrogate
- Hawes
- Haxby
- Helmsley
- Ingleby Barwick
- Kirkbymoorside
- Knaresborough
- Leyburn
- Loftus
- Malton
- Masham
- Middleham
- Middlesbrough
- Northallerton
- Norton-on-Derwent
- Pateley Bridge
- Pickering
- Redcar
- Richmond
- Ripon
- Saltburn-by-the-Sea
- Scarborough
- Selby
- Settle
- Skelton-in-Cleveland
- Skipton
- Stokesley
- Tadcaster
- Thirsk
- Thornaby-on-Tees
- Whitby
- Yarm
- York
See also: List of civil parishes in North Yorkshire