Cerebos Factory, Hartlepool

[missfish]

Poolie Girls already done a nice bit of history in here report, so briefly: Cerebos is a derelict salt works site situated in Greatham, a small village just off the A689 near Hartlepool. There has actually been salt extracted from this site since 1894 with Cerebos taking control in 1903. Centura Foods bought the site in the 70s and began producing chutney for Sharwood's before it finally closed its doors for good in 2002.

Liked the light/dark areas here, was kinda spooky

Machineryyyyyyyyyyy

Nice red corridor

**** knows what this was, not a swimming poor surely. We came up with the theory that they put milk in and stirred it.....not sure why but if anyone else has any better ideas, answers on a postcard please!

Time for nom noms!

Whilst tip-toeing away from the scary car

I would quite liked to have climbed into one of these just for the crack, they looked fun

Some nice smelly boots in the workshop

And last but not least something I found in a book about local production:

 

[Poolie_Girl]

Nice pictures Missfish! I must say it's a cracking place because it's just so big when you get inside compared to what it looks like from outside.

 

[missfish]

Yeah I was definitely pleasently surprised! Shame its all going/gone now.

 

[Krypton]

These photos surely cant be recent? As i was there not long ago and all the machinery has gone,

 

[wolfism]

Good photos - you've captured the abruptness of the lighting in there - in daytime it's just very bright/ very dark, with few tones in between.