factories

1. The History A – Water purification plant B – Top Cabin mine C – Thomas Wraggs fire-brick factory D – Thomas Wraggs post-1960 factory E – Hepworth refractories/Storr's Bridge Works (Thomas Marshall’s) F – Admin Buildings G – Claremount House During the industrial revolution in 1800s, the...

Solvent Belge Back to Belgium for this one, this place is quite special hence Iv already done a revisit here... Im partial to a nice bit of industrial The former lanolin factory Solvent Belge was established on 2nd of September 1899. They used the water from the river Vesder to reduce...

Most people know of The Grimsby Ice Company, but the historic docks has much more to offer than just that. Since discovering the area, I was captivated and I set out on a mission to document everything I could. Since it started it's life, the whole docks has been constantly changing. But after...

This was a former cod factory founded in the 1950s, ‘Seca do Bacalhau’ meaning ‘Dry of Cod’ in Portuguese. It’s a large site with a lighthouse, water tower, fish farming area, and living quarters for the workers. There was a documentary made of the women workers who worked there, mostly in slave...

History: This one has been covered many times, so I'll not go in depth with the history. But the site was used to produce refractory bricks and materials for the Sheffield steel industry. Closing in the 1990s, it has been on and off secured over the years with plans for homes to be built never...

Solo jaunt. This isn't really exploring, more just a leisure jaunt and indulging in dereliction; a side mission, maybe. Basically as you will know, across Taiwan were or are many many sugar factories, a very small handful of which are abandoned, whereas others are derelict but open to the...

For this explore, I took along my eldest son, and I met up with @FalloutShelter , I had been previously but not seen much. So eager to return, off we went. We started at the Air raid shelters and made our way round to the mould boring shop, this is where it got interesting. After finding a...

It's taken me a while to post this as I was hoping to get back and re check some areas I'd missed or ran out of time with. It's a bit empty but surprisingly not trashed. Thought I'd post it as it's all flattened now. Only the Bean's main offices remaining quessing only to form a perimeter...

Only a quick report this time.. A few from my last visit to Coalville. I spotted this whilst driving and thought it would be rude not to stop. Photos only taken on my phone so a bit pants... What do I already know? This is a large 3 storey stone and brick building that was built in the 60’s...

So my plan was to scope out the old corah building and possibly the old board room! I played it risky and went in the day disguised as a student taking photos for an art project (I have a baby face obviously it worked when I was found). unfortunately I couldn’t really see how to get in but I...

So my plan was to scope out the old corah building and possibly the old board room! I played it risky and went in the day disguised as a student taking photos for an art project (I have a baby face obviously it worked when I was found). unfortunately I couldn’t really see how to get in but I...

This is only our second thread (myself & @Narg1992). We thought we may as well post while we are in lockdown due to the amount of photos we have lying around! So as we are local to Halesowen we thought we might as well check out the New Hawne Colliery. Unfortunately we dont have much history on...

This was a very nice little hidden treasure tucked away in the middle of nowhere honestly couldn’t tell you much about the history but was a nice little explore very easily accessed and no security whatsoever always the best

Millennium mills The Millennium Mills were one of the largest flour mills in London during the early half of the 20th century. The building was largely destroyed by bombing during the second world war but was then rebuilt in 1945-1950 before eventually closing with the decline of the royal...

I'm back again, catching up on all the reports I've not got around to putting up in the last year and more! This time around, it's an interesting little place tucked away in rural Suffolk. Unfortunately I don't know the history of the place, when it closed and why. It's clearly been abandoned...