Swindon was once the home of a factory which produced countless CDs and vinyl records for a major music studio.
EMI set up a base of operations in the town during the 1980s and then had a shiny new processing plant built in Greenbridge, near Drakes Way, in 1994.
At its height, the site produced 150,000 CDs a day and saw the year that CD sales exceeded those of vinyl records for the first time.
The plant was closed and put up for sale in the early noughties, and a few years later the brand EMI itself became a thing of the past as Universal Music Group acquired it in 2012.
Our photos from the Adver's archives allow present day readers to have a look around the factory and track the technological progress from vinyl to CD (and the less successful mini-discs).
Did you used to work there? Any memories you would like to share? Let us know!
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