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itvNEWS reports on the battle to save Marconi Hall Street Works (1898-1912)

An audacious bid was recently launched to rescue the world’s first wireless factory which the Anglo-Italian genius Marconi opened at Hall Street, Chelmsford, Essex, UK, in 1899.

The vision of Chelmsford Civic Society is to convert part of the empty Grade II listed building into a STEM Club (Science Technology and Engineering) to encourage young ‘rocket scientists’ of the future in the very place that is the ‘birthplace of radio’.

Marconi’s Hall Street Works manufactured wireless equipment which helped save 700 plus survivors from the Titanic in 1912 as well as a similar number of souls following the U-Boat attack upon the Lusitania three years later; and countless lesser known sea tragedies.

Hall Street was vacated when Marconi built the sprawling new works at New Street in 15 weeks hiring 500 bricklayers because of a tidal wave of demand after every shipping line in the world wanted to install morse code equipment in the wake of the Titanic disaster.

The empty factory now has planning permission for apartments and commercial space, but it would be a disaster if the Marconi legacy was lost forever.

The New Street factory is sadly wholly converted into apartments, commercial space and social housing with just a Blue Plaque and the development’s ironic re-branding as ‘Marconi Evolution’.