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Duston is a suburb of and civil parish in the borough of Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. It has been a settlement since at least Roman times.〔Northampton Museum and Art Gallery〕 The area is near the Sixfields leisure site, which includes a cinema and football stadium, supermarket and several restaurants and pubs. Blacks Leisure Group (owner of Blacks and Millets) is based on an industrial estate on Mansard Close. From 1876 to 1995 Duston was home to St Crispin's Hospital, a county-owned and subsequently NHS mental hospital. During the First World War it was turned into Duston War Hospital for convalescent soldiers. Schools in the area include Chiltern Primary School, Duston Eldean Primary School, The Duston School, Hopping Hill Primary School, Millway Primary School and St Luke's Church of England Primary School. ==British Timken== British Timken was established in Chester Road, Aston, Birmingham in 1937 manufacturing tapered roller, parallel roller and ball bearings. In World War II a ''shadow factory'' was built in 1941 on a green-field site in Main Road, Duston, to produce roller bearings. At its peak over 4,000 people were employed in the factory. In 2002 the works were closed and the site cleared for housing with production moving to Poland.〔(British Industrial History accessed 1 January 2012 )〕〔(''British Timken to axe 950 jobs'' BBC News 26 April 2001, accessed 1 January 2012 )〕 British Timken was a division of the (then) Timken Bearing Company of Canton Ohio, now The Timken Company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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