Plans to build homes on a "contaminated eyesore" site look set to go-ahead, subject to a road safety audit. Whitecroft Properties Limited hopes to build 66 homes on the former pin factory site off New ...

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

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 ...