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The plant was founded in the second half of the 19th century as an iron foundry. For decades, it produced agricultural machinery and equipment for the woodworking industry. At its peak, the plant exported its products to many countries around the world. The factory's history ends in 2024. Full...

This winding machine was part of a coal mine that shut down already long ago. It's been left abandoned since, and decay heavily made it's way in the derelict building. Luckily, despite beeing abandoned for years, this place have not be subject to much vandalism, other than unavoidable cooper...

History Henry Perky invented the product we know today as 'Shredded Wheat.' After a while of selling his product, the formed a company called 'The Cereal Machine Company.' When building the Welwyn Garden City site, they decided to stick to the name 'The Shredded Wheat Company.' This site was...

A fairly lucky encounter for us, we walked on site and were spoken to by the guy in the security hut. We blagged it a bit with the security chap spoke who perfect English with an American accent and was obviously highly educated. He seemed to relish opportunity to show us around, must have been...

Thought people might be interested in these, I got a bit of a tour around last year after i bought some machines they were selling off. It was a bit of a weird place but one of the most amazing old machine tool works ive seen in years, a proper time warp! One woman in the office at the front...

History Molins are a leading cigarette making machine manufacturer who built machines to manufacture and package cigarettes. The site was originally developed for weapons manufacture during World War II but in 1950 Molins built their factory on the site, they owned and operated here from 1950...

Mollins Cigarette Making Machine Factory, Princes Risborough – July 2019 Last week; once again no one was able to explore, and I had the day off work, so I set about seeing what was local. This has been literally 10 miles from my house and disused for about 12 years!! I may have only started...

So earlier this year the Branston Pickled Machine Gun Factory was all the rage and Landie Man wasn't taking no for an answer so off we went. Nice building but mainly empty. We did get very luck with the February light tho. Beautiful. Speed did a very good write up on the history which can be...

Branston Depot is a former ordnance facility at Branston, Staffordshire. The site was originally conceived as the National Machine Gun Factory but by the time construction was completed in November 1918 the First World War was over and no machine guns were ever manufactured there. Crosse &...

I'm not sure how all of this works but i just wanted to share some pictures and maybe relay some information. Yesterday i visited this location in Branston which was previously used as a machine gun factory, unfortunately i found no way of access through doors, as i am not sure on the laws on...

Time Machine is a culverted section of the High Lode that runs under Ramsey, named after the fact that this culvert was originally also the location of some underground mechanism that powered the town clock in the street above. Here’s a couple of pics of the clock, taken on my trudge back to...

Branston machine gun factory History from here. https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/branston-machine-gun-factory-01-17.t111548#post-1193760 some info (Taken from burton-on-trent website): During World War One, as a part of the National Factories Scheme, HM Government commissioned the Enfield Small...

Decent sunday explore, met some other fellow explorers in there who were just aiming to see the clock, but i'm not one for digging through loads of bird dung for that business! Explored with a none 28dl member. some info (Taken from burton-on-trent website): During World War One, as a part of...

The National Machine Gun Factory aka The Branston Depot - Burton-on-Trent. Visited a couple of weeks back with a non-member. The office block in its heyday ~ It's fair to say that calling it 'the National Machine Gun Factory' is perhaps being a bit generous, as by the time construction was...