Middlebrook/ Monaghan mushrooms- April/ September 2010

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theoss

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I note the other report from this site, but this is my take on the place I noticed the delopment site notice next to the road and found the site sprawling out beyond the treeline. No security measures at all, and you never felt alone as you wandered about. I'll try and cover aspects not already shown in the existing report.

On entry, the smaller part of the site.There is this smaller site, which is also where the effluent plant is located, and a much larger site, accesed via an internal road.

One of the growing tunnels. All these around the site were environment controlled to create ideal conditions for accelerated mushroom cultivation;

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Opposite here, it it's own compound, the effluent plant;

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I don't what this pipework was for. There were two installations like this, one at each end of the site. The pipework was unidentified. Methane perhaps?

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Leaving the smaller site along the internal road, and arriving at what appears to be a sorting and packing plant, destroyed by fire early september;

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This conveyor ran the whole length of the building;

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The conveyor seems to be fed from these rooms which appear to empty out onto it;

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The front of the same building;

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Underneath the building, ventillation plant, or the ramains of it, for the the rooms shown in the second picture above;

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The labs have direct access to the conveyor building via stairs, probably for quality control reasons. A selection of equipment was left behind;

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The compostng required for mushroom food had received complaints from the local community about odours. For thiese reasons, this boom travels up and down the composting area applying oddour adjusting chemicals;

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The chemicals were controlled from these buildings;


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An ususual room full of sofas and armshairs, now lalso destroyed during one the three arson attacks on this site;

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Looks like an interesting and varied explore with loads to see.
The room with the armchairs was a bit odd.........simply a staff room, do you think?
 
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As became common to many places, this place employed a lot of migrant labour. Perhaps they lived on site or maybe local kids put this together from stuff dumped on the site.
 
nice stuff there buddy, and really well presented, with plenty of knowledge well done.:)
 
nice report dude, its a nice wander about. Glad I didn't make it to the effluent plant, it looks smelly!
 

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