COMMERCIAL WINDOW CLEANING SLOUGH

About Slough

Slough is a large town in Berkshire, to the west of London. The Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe and has the highest concentration of global corporate HQs outside London. It provides over 17,000 jobs in 400 businesses. Slough has the second highest gross value added per worker of cities in UK. It is thought that the name, Slough, means “soil”, and was first recorded in 1195 as Slo. It first seems to have applied to a hamlet between Upton to the east and Chalvey to the west, roughly around the “Crown Crossroads” where the road to Windsor (now the A332) met the Great West Road.

Before the 19th century, the main businesses of Slough were brickfields and agriculture. The bricks for the building of Eton College were made in Slough.

One of the most famous companies located in Slough is the UK headquarters of Mars, the main factory having been created in 1932 by Forrest Mars Sr.. He produced the Mars Bar in Slough over 70 years ago.

A joint venture in the past few years between Slough Borough Council and Morgan Sindall Investments Limited, known as Slough Urban Renewal has been driving regeneration across Slough in housing, leisure, community facilities and school buildings. The partnership finished several large-scale projects last year, including The Curve, Chalvey’s Milestone housing project and Arbour Park Community Stadium, which saw Slough Town FC return to their home town after years in exile. The Urban Renewal is expected to prepare the town for the arrival of Crossrail, expected in 2019.

To find out more about what’s on in Slough, visit the Slough Family Information Services website.