A view of the working platform with a central crane at the top of a silo during construction at Bury St Edmunds Sugar Beet Factory, showing the framework of the conical roof. A sugar factory began operating at Bury St Edmunds in 1924. In 1972 Laing were awarded the contract to build four sugar silos and a new beet handling plant for the British Sugar Corporation at Bury St Edmunds, and in 1981/82 a further 25,000 tonne capacity sugar silo was built.

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