A variety of workshops and industries collected on one site. The first works appears on the 1923 25 inch OS map and after that begin to dominate the character of the area. Before this the site contains a farm, first depicted on the 1st edition OS map of 1855 and named as Park Farm. Prior to the building of the farm, the site consisted of fields probably enclosed in a piecemeal fashion from Sheffield Park. Legibility of the previous landscape is invisible.