Mines Royal Company

Parent Company Div. of Compagnie Royale Austrienne des Mines S.A. (Belgium)... 

The married quaners estate was purchased by the local authority in 1958 and a few years later Wiltshire County Council ruled that the workers hostel and the ninety-four married quarters must be demolished by the end of 1965. At that time 70% of the tenants were Enfield workers, a substantial proportion of the 200 people still employed underground. The wartime huts were subsequently replaced by a permanent estate of council houses, but the community centre and dance hall remained and were later taken over by Royal Enfield as a drawing office and stores. After 1970 the surface buildings were used for a short time by a local rubber company, but in the early 1980s the land was partially cleared to make way for a housing development, which was later cut back substantially when concern was raised about the stability of the mine workings under the site. 

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