The boundaries of this site relate to the laying out of Queens Road and the Midland Railway in around 1870. This created a rectangular level plot on land ripe for future development. By 1905 two large works are depicted (shown on the 1951 1:1250 to be manufacturing machine knives. Both factories were replaced between 1976 and 1987 by the present lightly built sheds which are in multiple occupancy as retail outlets. No legibility of earlier phases of development.