Bungle pointed this place out to me the other week on the way back from Halifax, 'used to be a bus depot, empty now', sadly it was getting on for 1am and I was rather tired and wanted to get home (a good forty-five minute/hour drive from the Bunglehaus).
So, anyway, I get a Bungletext, 'what time you finish work today?', me, 'about 1ish, what you got in mind?'
Bungle 'something filthy and industrial, that place in Rochdale', 'I'll be round yours for 2' says I.
We arrived and found access, initially I wasn't really feeling the place, but as we made our way further into the site it just KEPT on giving, there was so much stuff lying around it was incredible and the place is absolutely HUGE!
Alexander Drew were a textile printers employing 120 people until they put themselves into administration in 2003. Its fabric range included germ and fungal-resistant fabrics, tobacco-resistant fabric and AromaPrint, a development, which allowed fabrics to be imprinted with particular smells such as freshly cut flowers.
I loved every minute we spent here (apart from the minute I stepped in something foul, of the human variety
).
The place is stunning and really needs to be seen to be believed, there is just SO much stuff, it's fantastic, put it on your to do lists, it's great!
The pics.
This room was fantastic, two double rows of hangers, each must have been forty feet long with fabric samples of all varieties.
More samples...
Lovely Victorian-ish tiles in the reception area...
This is a popular saying in Rochdale and can be dropped into a casual conversation thusly..
Bungle: Hey, Mendo, how's tricks?
Mendo: Not too bad, Bungle son, although I think I may be narcoleptic..
Bungle: Narcoleptic, eh? You been to the doctor, what's he said?
Mendo: He said I need to have some blood tests and that life is Justine's buttocks.
Bungle: Buttocks, you say?
Mendo: Yeah, Justine's buttocks, doesn't look good to be honest.
Bungle: Nah, I had Justine's buttocks a while back, was off work for two weeks.
I love this picture, I'm just annoyed that it was Bungle who thought about doing it!! lol
Myself and the Bungle (of Rainbow fame) up on the roof.
A great explore, loved it!
TnM
So, anyway, I get a Bungletext, 'what time you finish work today?', me, 'about 1ish, what you got in mind?'
Bungle 'something filthy and industrial, that place in Rochdale', 'I'll be round yours for 2' says I.
We arrived and found access, initially I wasn't really feeling the place, but as we made our way further into the site it just KEPT on giving, there was so much stuff lying around it was incredible and the place is absolutely HUGE!
Alexander Drew were a textile printers employing 120 people until they put themselves into administration in 2003. Its fabric range included germ and fungal-resistant fabrics, tobacco-resistant fabric and AromaPrint, a development, which allowed fabrics to be imprinted with particular smells such as freshly cut flowers.
I loved every minute we spent here (apart from the minute I stepped in something foul, of the human variety
).The place is stunning and really needs to be seen to be believed, there is just SO much stuff, it's fantastic, put it on your to do lists, it's great!
The pics.
This room was fantastic, two double rows of hangers, each must have been forty feet long with fabric samples of all varieties.
More samples...
Lovely Victorian-ish tiles in the reception area...
This is a popular saying in Rochdale and can be dropped into a casual conversation thusly..
Bungle: Hey, Mendo, how's tricks?
Mendo: Not too bad, Bungle son, although I think I may be narcoleptic..
Bungle: Narcoleptic, eh? You been to the doctor, what's he said?
Mendo: He said I need to have some blood tests and that life is Justine's buttocks.
Bungle: Buttocks, you say?
Mendo: Yeah, Justine's buttocks, doesn't look good to be honest.
Bungle: Nah, I had Justine's buttocks a while back, was off work for two weeks.
I love this picture, I'm just annoyed that it was Bungle who thought about doing it!! lol
Myself and the Bungle (of Rainbow fame) up on the roof.
A great explore, loved it!
TnM
