K. G. Corfield was a manufacturer of photographic equipment based in Wolverhampton, England. They produced high quality cameras through the 1950's from a run-down factory that was eventually condemned in 1958. Property prices in the area were high and Corfield could not afford new premises locally. The decision was made to move all manufacturing and many of the employees to Ballymoney in Northern Ireland where production continued for several more years.
I was planning a trip to Northern Ireland and decided this was an excellent excuse to acquire a camera built in Ireland to use in Ireland. Sadly the first one I found, a Periflex Gold Star, had a split shutter drum and was not repairable. Further searching turned up an Interplan-A and I decided that as part of the trip I would use it to photograph the factory where it was made. I didn't have a Corfield lens but a nice Russian LTM 50mm worked just fine.
Some Google searching turned up some photographs of the factory and the name of the street it was on. From this it was fairly simple to find the building on Google Street View and get the address,
On the day I was visiting I plugged the address into my GPS and assumed it would be easy to find. Unfortunately where Siri told me "You have arrived at your destination" there was no building matching the Google Streetview image. After a couple of trips up and down the road I realized that there was no building, but there was a space where a building used to be.
The factory had been demolished a few months before! It was disappointing but at least I got a "new" camera out of the whole plan and I did get to use an Irish camera in Ireland, I had fun finishing the film off at Giants Causeway.