Has anyone ever felt attached to a derelict building? Maybe one you dont want to see knock-down?
Attached to a building?
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turkey
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I'll be gutted if they flatten milenium mills, and get rid of the chimneys at battersea...
turk
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Millennium Mills, as I pretty much 'discovered' it, and I've been there 12 or so times and slept on the rooftops several times when I've been in London and unable to get home. Even typing this makes me sad, cause I haven't been in and said hello in 3 months or so.
Severalls. Used to be such a lovely, tranquil place. It's been painful watching the place get so comprehensively smashed and seeing all the fire damage appear. It's almost totally lost its aura of calmness now; feels most oppressive.
RAF Yatesbury is one of my favourites. I have been there several times and even taken friends there. I feel more angry than sad that the site is being redeveloped. Even though some buildings remain due to listing, the character of the place will be gone. I'm not sure if I want to go back, knowing how it was when I first went there.
I no I go on alot about hortham, but that wasnt my first love off derelict'ness. Me and mates found a warehouse in the industrial site, thornbury( North Bristol ) and we messed around in there for a good month or so untill word got out about its existance and young'uns distroyed the place. A good memory I have is when about 20 of us was playing man hunt aka. hide and seek, And we was hiding in the loft type thing, then we heard dogs barking, and my mate that was far away downstairs shouted "F***'IN RUN"!!!!!!!!!!! We got scared and ran, Later finding out 2 police vans and a police car pulled up. And they were after others in there(obiously). But druggies was using it aswell , anyway she got torn down a few months ago. I was in morning for at least a month. but i got my revenge :evil: EVERYONE KEEP TELLING US ABOUT BUILDINGS YOU LOVE!
, anyway she got torn down a few months ago. I was in morning for at least a month. but i got my revenge :evil: EVERYONE KEEP TELLING US ABOUT BUILDINGS YOU LOVE!
Worsley AAOR, I spent so many years of my life so close to it, but never found it till I was skivin with a mate years later, and thats what got me involved in UE.
But also the Barnes has a special place in my heart, as does Battersea, even though I've never been, theres just something about it, maybe its Pink Floyd?!!lol! Also I'll be sad to see Whittingham get converted.
But also the Barnes has a special place in my heart, as does Battersea, even though I've never been, theres just something about it, maybe its Pink Floyd?!!lol! Also I'll be sad to see Whittingham get converted.
This is unrelated but who owns the sites : SpaceMinusPeople?, NobodyThere? No1 talks about them on here?
hey up! spaceminuspeople is Groobs, he's about somewhere still but not as often. as for me, i hardly mention nobodythere.co.uk myself! not much for self promotion, and besides, it's a nightmare of updating. i'll shout when i've finished it, 2009.
by the way was it your site that had a link to me? i meant to say thanks and put a return link in the hortham tour but not got to that yet!
in terms of getting attached to buildings, well.. the severalls boilers? apart from that, i always remember that part of the reason for doing ue and taking pics is that you know the place *won't* be there forever. so when it's not, and i've seen a couple vanish (st vincent's hospital, tottenham baths), i just remember that's why i took the pics! nothing stays the same..
sam
Oh wow its sam then is it! Yeah I had you on the links for a while untill I changed the lay out, but I will have to put them all back on again. I was amazed by the amound of images you had of hortham, Yours was the thing that made me fall in love with hortham. Its a shame that theres only like 8 buildings aprox, left
keep safe
keep safe
funkymonkey
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I no I go on alot about hortham, but that wasnt my first love off derelict'ness. Me and mates found a warehouse in the industrial site, thornbury( North Bristol ) and we messed around in there for a good month or so untill word got out about its existance and young'uns distroyed the place. A good memory I have is when about 20 of us was playing man hunt aka. hide and seek, And we was hiding in the loft type thing, then we heard dogs barking, and my mate that was far away downstairs shouted "F***'IN RUN"!!!!!!!!!!! We got scared and ran, Later finding out 2 police vans and a police car pulled up. And they were after others in there(obiously). But druggies was using it aswell
was that the old dairy in the industrial estate, next to the recycling centre? If it was, I used to work there back in its hey day. was some lovely tounge 'n' groove pannelling in the m,anagers office that i would have loved to have seen!
Yea thats it, If the managers office was next to the canteen with blue pannels? with double glazed windows? which someone through a door through??? Whats the story bhind that place? and have you got any pictures of the place by any chance?
Thanks
funkymonkey
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The managers office was literally in the from door and up the stairs. Aint got any pics, as wasnt really into UE when i was working there, was made redundant due to it closing. It closed in 2001 if I remember rightly. The site itself must have been atleast 20 years old or so.
It was a packaging plant for the express dairies organic 'tetrapac' line of products. If you go to safeway and buy a big bottle of organic milk, it used to come from that plant. Round the back were the 50,000 litre silos where the milk was kept, and the loading bays for the lorries. Inside, not sure if it was all taken when they moved, but in the large room closest to the front of the building was the boxing room, where the tetrapac bottles would come through from the filling room on a conveyor, and would be manually placed into boes and palletised ready for distribution. That was where i worked! Behind this room was the filling room, which was a level 3 clean room, had to wear special shoes etc to work in there. The main filling machine was about 15 foot tall and was the size of a small house! alongside the boxing room was the store, with shutters that used to be at the front of the building next to the road. All the rooms were kept at an ambient 3 degree, lovely for the hot august of 2001!
Was a cool place to work, except for the ugly hair nets and white overalls we had to wear!!!
Wow! thanks. Sadly If that was the walls in the managers office, I got thrown through it. And it bloody hurt! lol do you know what tho's offices at the bottom end away from the place was for? We sadly only discovered them about a week before the place left my life , but we had a good few months there! Sadly missed
, but we had a good few months there! Sadly missed
hrmm difficult...
it is a toss up between cane hill, west park and maybe queen liz as well!
it is a toss up between cane hill, west park and maybe queen liz as well!
The only derelict buildings I've ever been properly 'attatched to' are ones that have connections with people I used to know, for example, Netherne has always been a 'special' place for me, because my late grandmother spent a while there suffering for depression - even though the building she was treated in has gone, it still holds a kind of sad sentimentality if you see what I mean?
Stammerham Cottages near where I live are the exception, I don't know anyone who lived there, but the belongings left behind tell a sad story and I can quite vividly picture the residents' hasty departure. I've visited so often it's become almost like an old friend, so to speak.
Stammerham Cottages near where I live are the exception, I don't know anyone who lived there, but the belongings left behind tell a sad story and I can quite vividly picture the residents' hasty departure. I've visited so often it's become almost like an old friend, so to speak.
Millennium for me too. Haven't clocked up anywhere near as many visits but I first saw it as the backdrop to Jean Michelle Jarre's Destination Docklands 18 years ago. Then rediscovered it last summer when I was passing on the DLR. First time inside was amazing. Big grins all round as soon as we were all in.
soul_scientist
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Its got be severalls for me as ive lived virtually right next door to it for the last 27 years and worked there for three years right up until they closed it in march 1997.
It was such a great place to work, beatiful surroundings, buildings even some of the patients there made you laugh to!
Its going to be a very sad day when they finally knock it down , i might go and chain myself to a tree, that will stop them!
It was such a great place to work, beatiful surroundings, buildings even some of the patients there made you laugh to!
Its going to be a very sad day when they finally knock it down
, i might go and chain myself to a tree, that will stop them!
