The Hawker factory on Richmond Road in Kingston was the first building I saw when I moved to Kingston in 1990. Its massive Art Deco facade was a dominant feature of the area and its bulldozing in 1993 remains one of the worst decisions of the planning inspectorate. But I stumbled across this film recently showing the factory after its closure - which quite strangely only hints at the granduer of the main building just at the end of the video.
