Cerebos, Greatham, Hartlepool Oct 09

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Krypton

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Sorry about the amount of pictures but i had to do the place justice! As we set off there was talk of "will there be any workmen there? Or will we be ok?". The answer was - sort of!
Cerebos closed fully in 2001 as Sharwoods Factory. Over the years it has produced numerous brands of food that YOU have probablys ate! Over the last year it has detiriorated rapidly after being stripped. However, the whole place was just generally smashed up. All you could hear was Drip, Drop, Splodge... We didnt many to get any externals from the front as the fire brigade were doing some demonstration thing. I know it has been done before, but maybe not to this extent.

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Welcome...

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Nice reed Garden on the roof!

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Its a very odd shaped building.

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Weight from one of the very heavy fire doors.

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Storage Warehouses. This is the oldest part of the factory and was the first part to close.

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The bridge that would have carried food along to the distribution warehouse.

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However, production was halted...

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Many documents and files were left behind.

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Sharwoods left some of their secret recipes

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The training kitchen

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Medical Centre

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No idea what this is, but it was full of mouldy curry.

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I certainly wasnt ready to eat these!

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Atora Suet

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Cool 80's computers

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Again another oddity

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Engineering Office

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Letter about the closing of the factory

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Floppy Disks

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Engineering Stores

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Mindless Vandalism

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Mouldy Old Phone

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Workshops. All the glass roof has been smashed.

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There was certainly none on the shelf

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Workshops. All the roof has been smashed opening it up to the elements.

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Glass Building Is Boiler House

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Basement Boiler Rooms

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Round the back

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Soup Line :lol:

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I waited to be served...

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But changed my mind as there was nowhere to sit!


I had fun playing with my new flash gun. I needed it because in some parts it was PITCH black! I also nearly fell into the red swimming pool thingy!

Hope You Enjoyed
Jack! :)
 
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Interesting to see a different take on Cerebos. The workshops were still fairly intact last year, and had some machine tools in them - not so now. IIRC, there was also some furniture, and a cash register, kicking around in the staff canteen?
 
Interesting to see a different take on Cerebos. The workshops were still fairly intact last year, and had some machine tools in them - not so now. IIRC, there was also some furniture, and a cash register, kicking around in the staff canteen?

There was a couple of cash registers in the staff shop but theyve gone. All the oak pannelling from admin has gone as well :mad:
 
I've just been there today and I have to say I missed most of what everyone else seems to have seen!! I'm guessing most of the goodies are upstairs (where I didn't go) - the place is massive and totoally confusoing when you're in there...

I was hoping to find those old Poppadum packets, but no joy...

A return visit may be in order ;)
 
Yeah they were upstairs. Right at the end of the first floor corridor in the admin block in an office full of files. The poppodum packets were at the back of the factory near the workshops. If your going back let me know in advance and il come along and give you a bit of a tour. Im there quite a lot as i live about 10mins away. It is a very confusing layout!
 
Yeah they were upstairs. Right at the end of the first floor corridor in the admin block in an office full of files. The poppodum packets were at the back of the factory near the workshops. If your going back let me know in advance and il come along and give you a bit of a tour. Im there quite a lot as i live about 10mins away. It is a very confusing layout!

It's a bit of a hike for me, but I may well take you up on that offer;)
 
It's a bit of a hike for me, but I may well take you up on that offer;)

Cool. Cerebos was one of my first explores and after being so many times i know the place like the back of my hand! Its just hard to try and describe via text where things are. Which bits did you see? Any photos ?
 
Cool. Cerebos was one of my first explores and after being so many times i know the place like the back of my hand! Its just hard to try and describe via text where things are. Which bits did you see? Any photos ?

Pics will be on my Flickr site in a few hours...take a shufty
 
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