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Report - Acorn Shipyard, Rochester July 2018

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mookster

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This place is a little surprise really, I had written it off as not worth a look after a spate of fires destroyed two of the workshops last year as well as some smaller buildings but it's a really great example of smaller scale British heavy industry, with pretty much all the machinery and tools left from when the company went bust in 2016. Some photos a friend of mine took on a recent visit spurred me on to go as I realised it was a place that was right up my street as I love British industry such as this.

There isn't a great deal of information online about Acorn Shipyard however as mentioned above the company went bust in September 2016 and shortly thereafter two of the large buildings were destroyed by fires. Situated where it is it's sadly been a prime target for local morons but thankfully although the fabric of the buildings have been affected by graffiti etc, the internals are still pretty intact. There were workshops devoted to both woodwork and metalworking, it was quite nice seeing machinery built at the now demolished Wadkin Woodworking Machinery factory in Leicester sitting in there as that's another place I managed to explore a few years back.

The only bad part about this explore was the weather - considering we'd enjoyed weeks and weeks of blazing sun we had to visit it on the one afternoon where it was blowing a gale and raining horizontally - which didn't make shooting the two buildings ravaged by fire that much fun!

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Thanks for looking :)
 

dave

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At first i was thinking not that good though as i scrolled down things just got better and better. Great report and beautiful pics.
 

obscurity

Flaxenation of the G!!!
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nice to see some better photos of the place. I saw a report a while back but it was a bit hard to make out if there was really much worth seeing. definitely looks worth a mooch
 

mookster

grumpy sod
Regular User
Cheers all, it was a nice one - just let down by typical British weather...

nice to see some better photos of the place. I saw a report a while back but it was a bit hard to make out if there was really much worth seeing. definitely looks worth a mooch

Those are the photos I was going off way back when I wrote it off as not worth bothering with, then my mate popped down there and got some much better shots showing much more of interest which was a pleasant surprise! It's just a shame the fires happened so soon after it closed.
 

Exploring with Andy

Behind Closed Doors
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How strange to see all those machines still there in the first building when all the walls have rotted away around them.
 

8mm

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So sad to see such great, solid machinery just go to rot. I wonder if the fires were insurance related?
Somone needs to rescue those lovely cranes though!
 

mw0sec

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So sad to see such great, solid machinery just go to rot. I wonder if the fires were insurance related?
Somone needs to rescue those lovely cranes though!
Completely agree. I hate to see good gear wasted - I'd go for a lathe & the vertical driller!
 

snoop-who

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Unfortunately went here last week and the sites been completely flattened except for the crane couldn't belive it well sad
 

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