Abandoned Furniture Shop, Ogmore Vale, south Wales. March 2014

[skapunkmetalskater]

Wow, what an interesting find! Loved it, and some great photos too!

 

[Will Knot]

Nice pics, great find

 

[rob-norris]

Hi I'm from Ogmore Vale and I don't recognise this building? Where is it?

 

[GGG]

This building isn't in Ogmore Vale itself, It's in Lewistown which is just before you get to Ogmore Vale. It used to be a dairy and then was a local shop before becoming a discount furniture shop.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...0x486e6b1cc7994149:0xd4d794e5663b98ee!6m1!1e1

Streetview for it

 

[Ninjamynci]

Abandoned Furniture Shop, Ogmore Vale

Stumbled upon this building while checking out a disused petrol station further up the valley.

It's an eery disused furniture shop with a factory attached to it. I don't know too much about the building as I don't live in the area, but a Google Street View shows the factory/shop as being open as near as last Spring.

The building is still in pretty good condition, has very minimal signs of graffiti (more the way of local kids with permanent markers rather than full scale spraycan work). The building's forecourt is a popular spot for flytipping, we found evidence of this in hundreds of photographs and day planner diaries dumped at the entrance all seeming to come from one or two families in the local area.

What struck is most of the lack of evidence showing that it was previously a furniture shop/factory, some of the shots looking back even look slightly "medical".

That was a Happy Shopper when I was a kid in the 80s/90s. My Nan always called it "the co-op" because it was the co-op dairy when she was young. I went googling, found an old picture of the dairy here - 1913 Lewistown | Peoples Collection Wales

The petrol station you're talking about is probably the Shell garage, just round the corner from the Corbett Arms. Vivid memories of my mother always getting £6 of petrol in there because they had a thing where you'd get a free glass for spending £6. Every house had dozens of those damn glasses.