Dropped by here on the weekend while in the area, have been wanting to give it a go for quite awhile. Don't usually drop by sites like this in broad daylight but managed to get in unseen - by any security at least, although observed them moving around on site quite a bit after I was indoors.
The Millennium Mills is a derelict turn of 20th century flour mill in West Silvertown on the south side of the Royal Victoria Dock, between the Thames Barrier and the ExCel exhibition centre alongside the newly built Britannia village, in Newham, London, England. Along with Millennium Mills, there remains a small section of the now destroyed Rank Hovis Premier Mill and a restored grade II listed grain silo, labelled the ‘D’ silo. Described as a "decaying industrial anachronism standing defiant and alone in the surrounding subtopia", the Millennium Mills has become a well-loved icon of post-industrial Britain and has made its way into many aspects of popular culture, being used as a backdrop in films and television shows such as Ashes to Ashes and Derek Jarman's The Last of England. Millennium Mills is also a destination for Urban Explorers despite high security, dangers of structural weakness, ten-storey drops and asbestos, and there are many reports and internal photos of the site.
Tnx for a vital tip from the_raw. I was climbing up girders and ropes for about a half hour before I found a more obvious way in. ;/ *ashamed*
Employee logs go until 1991.
Silo D and the London Pleasure Gardens site.
View of Canary Wharf and the City.
Watching security leave.
Some verry dodgy stairs. Waited to get a plane taking off in frame but kept missing them. >_<
Up top.
Swimming Pool.
The Millennium Mills is a derelict turn of 20th century flour mill in West Silvertown on the south side of the Royal Victoria Dock, between the Thames Barrier and the ExCel exhibition centre alongside the newly built Britannia village, in Newham, London, England. Along with Millennium Mills, there remains a small section of the now destroyed Rank Hovis Premier Mill and a restored grade II listed grain silo, labelled the ‘D’ silo. Described as a "decaying industrial anachronism standing defiant and alone in the surrounding subtopia", the Millennium Mills has become a well-loved icon of post-industrial Britain and has made its way into many aspects of popular culture, being used as a backdrop in films and television shows such as Ashes to Ashes and Derek Jarman's The Last of England. Millennium Mills is also a destination for Urban Explorers despite high security, dangers of structural weakness, ten-storey drops and asbestos, and there are many reports and internal photos of the site.
Tnx for a vital tip from the_raw. I was climbing up girders and ropes for about a half hour before I found a more obvious way in. ;/ *ashamed*
Employee logs go until 1991.
Silo D and the London Pleasure Gardens site.
View of Canary Wharf and the City.
Watching security leave.
Some verry dodgy stairs. Waited to get a plane taking off in frame but kept missing them. >_<
Up top.
Swimming Pool.