Work has begun to convert a historic pin factory into a community space for events. Constructed more than 280 years ago, ...

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Other projects supported by the Heritage at Risk Capital Fund include the derelict Toll House at Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare and Swindon’s Health Hydro, which contains England’s oldest Turkish ...

Adam Smith famously used a pin factory to illustrate the advantages of specialization, choosing this "very trifling manufacture" because the different tasks were performed under one roof: "One man ...