milk

HISTORY OF THE SITE: One of the UK's strongest milk processing sites stood in West London: the Hanworth dairy, noted as existing as far back as 1847. Its role shifted in 1912, when it joined a small national group pioneering pasteurisation techniques. Under Job's Dairy, growth followed across...

Development and Early History Originally constructed in the late 1930s by Cow & Gate, a prominent manufacturer of baby formula, the factory's design incorporated elements of the pre-existing mid-19th century atmospheric railway pumping station that previously stood on the site. This adaptive...

History Standing forlornly by the River Torridge is the remains of the milk factory that had been there since 1874. It closed in 1993, mainly as a result of milk quotas which had been introduced a decade earlier, and 134 people lost their jobs. For many years it was one of the town’s main...

Dairy Crest factory at Torrington Devon November 2020, a very interesting set of buildings abandoned since 1993. Love some the graffiti in there, some real talent. Next time I visit I’ll put the drone up and maybe explore more of the place.

A roadside place I looking at as a break from water-powered mills last year. Not reported on here as far as I know, but more of historical interest than anything particularly exciting to explore. It’s a relict of the dairy industry, which in contrast to wool and coal, is at least still important...

not done a report in a while and have a nice backlog to catch up with . bit of an old explore this one ,its been arround for years but i wanted to see it anyway so off we went  the milk factory has been closed since the 1970s  , the milk was collected from the local farms and put in churns ...

Arla Milk Processing Plant, Hatfield Perverel, Essex – Feb 2017 Well, this one was some time back! Coupling a backlog with the decision of keeping this one till it was gone, simply because there were bits and pieces going on here such as the sale of the equipment; I decided to mothball it...