LOM Architecture & Design has completed work on 50 new homes that have gone up at the site of a Bauhaus-influenced former shoe factory in Essex.

The factory in East Tilbury was set up by Czech industrialist Tomáš Baťa and work began on the site in 1932 – the year of his death.

The factory made shoes for more than 70 years but closed back in 2005. The site, which includes four listed buildings, sparked a boom in housing at the town and at one stage more than 6,000 workers lived there.

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