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15/07/2018 10:36 am
Brooklands - something I learned.
In the 1920s Parry Thomas, designer and builder of land speed record cars and racing cars, rented workshops at the Flying Club end of the circuit and lived in a bungalow named The Hermitage. After Thomas's death Reid Railton became chief designer at Thompson and Taylor, who took over Thomas's shop, and Railton moved into the Hermitage. In 1978 Bass Charrington, a brewery company, flattened both the workshops and The Hermitage (originally Royal Flying Corps officers quarters) in order to build new offices. This appalling act of vandalism was deliberately scheduled the day before these most important historic buildings were due to be protected by a Grade 1 listing order. Big business isn't always a good thing!