Prior to its demolition c.1990 this site was built over between 1877 and 1889 by the Hardy Patent Pick Co. manufacturers of mining tools (Badcock 2002). This works also occupied much of polygon HSY 2070 which was previously the site of the Little London Dam. Prior to the construction of the Mining Tool Works the land within this polygon was probably used as meadowland due to its location within the alluvial floodplain of the river Sheaf. Fragmentary legibility of former industrial usage from the concrete floors of the former works which are likely to seal and protect earlier deposits.