It was once home to an ink company, part of a large publishing and printing company, the Butler and Tanner group, but now this site is earmarked for three homes.

The company, called Radstock Reproductions - or as the sign says Radstock Repro - closed operations in 2004 with works moved from Midsomer Norton to the parent company's offices in Frome.

But while the Midsomer company, based alongside the main town car park, was active, it employed around 26 people, although locals remember the building itself being badly damaged by a fire in the 1970s. For people with longer memories the site was also where a huge gas works once was.

The building has been left empty for so long, people were wondering whether anything would happen to it,

Now there is an active planning application in to build two three bedroomed homes and a one bedroomed coach house on the west of Primrose Lane following the demolition of the existing derelict industrial unit - adjacent to the old big factory.

The application 22/03287/FUL went into B&NES planners on August 16 last year, but has yet to be decided.

As for Butler, Tanner & Dennis that company no longer in existence. According to a local history site, which has photos of the inside of the building HERE "Facing financial difficulties the company went into administration in 2007 with the loss of many jobs and was subsequently bought by Media and Print Investments but again went into administration in 2008. A benefactor, Felix Dennis of Dennis Publishing, bought the firm at the eleventh hour saving as many jobs as possible. His investment allowed the firm to continue until 2014 when, unfortunately, it closed for the final time. However Dennis Maps continues to print Ordnance Survey Maps employing about 20 former Butler and Tanner employees. "