Hello all. I have been intending to put up a report for a while, so here it is.
This report is a mixture of photos that I took on a visit in November and photos I took on a more recently. I am not sure 100% about the history, feel free to correct me.
The factory was built in the early 1800s, and mostly closed down in the 1960s, due to the owning company's failure to upgrade their machinery to more modern machines. The buildings were then used for a variety of different uses, including music studios, a prostitute outreach centre, offices and textile workshops.
Exterior shots:
Furniture workshop:
A machine of some kind, found in a room next to the furniture workshop:
Box of keys (I can't imagine why they needed so many!)
The prostitute outreach centre, which closed in 2007
A rather untidy prostitute outreach centre:
Ominous green stuff growing on the walls:
The building looms overhead...
I have heard that the car repair centre was used to train local youths in useful skills as a
means of tackling the causes of crime.
Promotional airfresheners, found in the car repair centre
Me having a play on the piano :lol sadly it was broken:
A sign on a door gives some idea of the age:
One of the offices:
(Interestingly, I got pics of a topless calendar from 1992 in one of the offices, unfortunately
photobucket doesn't allow that kind of thing
Samples of thread:
Hello? Anybody there?
Fabric hanging up:
Rolls of some kind of fabric:
Office at the top of a ladder:
The roof:
A nice side view of the building:
Hope this is inspiring. If anyone is interested in a possible future revisit, please message me.
Oh and Merry Christmas Everybody
This report is a mixture of photos that I took on a visit in November and photos I took on a more recently. I am not sure 100% about the history, feel free to correct me.
The factory was built in the early 1800s, and mostly closed down in the 1960s, due to the owning company's failure to upgrade their machinery to more modern machines. The buildings were then used for a variety of different uses, including music studios, a prostitute outreach centre, offices and textile workshops.
Exterior shots:
Furniture workshop:
A machine of some kind, found in a room next to the furniture workshop:
Box of keys (I can't imagine why they needed so many!)
The prostitute outreach centre, which closed in 2007
A rather untidy prostitute outreach centre:
Ominous green stuff growing on the walls:
The building looms overhead...
I have heard that the car repair centre was used to train local youths in useful skills as a
means of tackling the causes of crime.
Promotional airfresheners, found in the car repair centre
Me having a play on the piano :lol sadly it was broken:
A sign on a door gives some idea of the age:
One of the offices:
(Interestingly, I got pics of a topless calendar from 1992 in one of the offices, unfortunately
photobucket doesn't allow that kind of thing
Samples of thread:
Hello? Anybody there?
Fabric hanging up:
Rolls of some kind of fabric:
Office at the top of a ladder:
The roof:
A nice side view of the building:
Hope this is inspiring. If anyone is interested in a possible future revisit, please message me.
Oh and Merry Christmas Everybody
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