Wilfred Middlebrook, in his newspaper serialisation The Changing Face Of Warminster, published in 1971, noted:
Industry returned to Copheap Lane [Warminster] again in 1958 with the erection of a “banana factory,” – Geest Industries Ltd. Since that time the fruit processing and packing factory has been enlarged to eight mammoth bays, complete with special railway sidings to deal with banana trains direct from Barry Docks.