keighley

Having visited this mill all the way back in 2011 before it was all totally empty; it was nice to see it again with better equipment and 14 years more exploring under my belt. Although; sadly the main mill had experienced a large fire some years earlier, leaving the exploring to be all down to...

Very late to the party on this one. It'll forever be somewhere that I really should have done before the best bit completely burned down, but being a long way from home I never had the chance. Oh well. Visited on a weekend road trip up to the northern badlands with @CookieRaider. We had a very...

Background History Construction of Dalton mills by Joseph Craven started in 1866 and they were in full operation by 1870. The complex consisted of three mills: the Tower Mill, the Genappe Mill and the New Mill, and these were constructed in phases. At their peak the mills employed over 2000...

First explore of the year found me up at Keighley , a fairly short culvert in length only 261 meters long but fairly large and a couple of features in the middle made it worth doing . Parking up in Morrisons car park just below beck street it was a really short walk up to the outfall and in...

Dalton Mills: Specifically Genappe Mill and New Mill The name of this mill had been one that constantly been risen within conversations in which, for the most part, I ignored. Eventually, in a little browse online it was decided to be worth the hassle and considering I had yet to venture into...

A sad day

Bit late to the table with this thread but as I’ve done the research I’ll post anyway... I have been concentrating on the Great Northern Railway’s Keighley to Bradford & Keighley to Halifax routes including the spur to St Paul’s at Holmfield. This is just a brief roundup of the accessibility of...

Malsis School, a grade II listed property, was located at a mansion known as Malsis Hall on a 13-hectare site. It was founded in 1920 ans was a co-educational independent pre-prep and preparatory school for pupils aged 3 to 13. The school closed on 10 December 2014 due to a decline in pupil...

I had to collect junior from Leeds before lockdown, so we stopped off at Dalton Mills on the way home. This used to be a well trodden tourist spot, with about 20 reports on here, mostly from 2010/11, the most recent being 2015. All I knew at the time was that it was your standard empty mill with...

Only a small repot today, not sure this amount of photos even constitues one! Can't remember much about this place but kinda thinking we got busted hence lack of many photos. Was an absolute beauty inside with some pretty special ironwork. The old engineering workshop was proper time warp...

The post is situated on a low mound within a field. All surface structures remain intact. Bomb power indicator (BPI) baffle. The hatch is unlocked and not attached to its hinges or the weighted mechanism. The monitoring room is in reasonable condition with various items...

Malsis School, Crosshills Malsis School is located in the village of Crosshills in North Yorkshire. It was a co-educational independent pre-prep and preparatory school for pupils aged 3 to 13 years. The school was founded in 1920, and closed due to falling pupil numbers in 2014. Two former...

Saw this place on Google maps and headed over for a look, Its clearly still in use in certain areas but there's some interesting stuff lying about which made for a short but enjoyable mooch Couldn't find any history on the place! Cheers for looking

Explored with Raz & a non member Bit of history from Raz (being an info pirate again) (y) Designed by JB Chantrell, St. Paul's was completed in 1846 in an Early English style featuring a large gothic tower overlooking the village of Denholme. The constructions of the church cost £3,700...

After a long trip earlier on in the weekend a short trip over to Bradford and Huddersfield was the plan for the day, a few frustrating fails later we found ourselves in Keighley outside Dalton Mills waiting for the builders to piss off so we could make our way in and after a short wait we was...