40 years of experience and knowledge go into every polytunnel!

In 1969 my father, Peter Wolfenden a dairy farmer from East Lancashire, came up with the idea of obtaining a sheet of polythene and putting eyelets in each corner so that bales of hay that were standing in the fields could be stacked in piles and covered, to stop them being ruined by the rain before the farmers could get them indoors.

The next development was to stretch this polythene, which in those early days was a very new and rare material, over steel hoops. These were among some of the very first polytunnels.

LBS polythene grew over the years with all three children joining the company and branching out into different sides of the business which is now the LBS GROUP.

In 1990 LBS acquired Northern Polytunnels. This was a company which had developed multispan polytunnels for commercial use. This strengthened our position within the commercial horticulture market, making us one of the largest producers of polytunnels for the commercial market in the UK. We have been busy with our commercial range and the development of the garden centre market over recent years and when you visit a garden centre you stand a good chance of being one of our canopy framework.

The name Northern Polytunnel was eventually changed to NP Structures and we have developed a new range of home structures which bring together 40 years of design experience and parts from our tried and tested commercial ranges. So you can be sure when you order a NP Structures polytunnel that you are getting a high quality product.

Ian Wolfenden - Director

One of our first prototypes circa 1970