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Aylesford Newsprint opened in 1922 under the name of 'Aylesford Papermill' and its main purpose was to create paper for newsprint production, mainly sending its paper to the London Press.
The newsprint was the longest producer of 100% recycled newsprint plant. It used paper and magazines that would usually be destined for landfill or waste and transformed it into high grade quality newsprint.
They would need 500,000 Tonnes of paper and magazines would be needed to make 400,00 tonnes of newsprint every year.
But, over the last few decades the need for newsprint has declined, mainly due to the fact most newspapers are now found online and people aren't buying physical paper copies anymore.
In March 2015, the plant closed with a loss of 230 jobs.
Today
Today the site is currently in the process of being stripped out and being prepared for demolition.
Most of the big machinery has been sold off but some still remains inside the buildings.
There are plans for the place to be turned into a housing site, which could accommodate up to 500 new homes.
The newsprint is set to be completely demolished by Summer of 2017, and they've already started.
The Explore
So, i had seen quite a few posts about this place and really needed to get my arse in gear and have a nose.
When we got to the site we were greeted by numerous amounts of huge warehouse buildings and also a few nice chimney stacks which can be seen from a fare few distance away.
After yet again having a pre-explore macdonalds, we decided to make our move on the newsprint. Access was easy enough, with a bit of common sense you're in.
There is an active security presence on site and had to just keep our eyes open for anyone inside.
We ended up being in there about 3 hours before the presence of the workers and security got quite high and we had decided we had seen enough and thought it was then a good idea to leave.
But, we stupidly mangaged to walk out infront of some workers and was threatened by the security bloke who worked there who progressed onto trying to steal our gear, swearing at us and even punching @DRZ_Explorer in the face he then topped it off by telling us that 'he'd fucking kill us' if we didn't do what he said. All in all not a nice guy, he then proceeded on to try and say that he owned my SD Card and Camera because it was on his land, was quite funny to see him get more angry as we denied what he wanted us to do which was delete our photos. Anyway after he then locked us in the security office he said if we deleted our photos then he'd let us go. Jokes on him though, photo recovery is a thing! Hey ho, at least we got the easy way out!
Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to look at the turbines, mainly due to the fact it was right next to where the workers were and decided it was a little bit too bait.
Explored this one with @DRZ_Explorer and was a really good site to have a mooch around and would recommend people to not leave it too late, it doesn't look like it'll be around to see another Christmas!
Enjoy.
Aylesford Newsprint opened in 1922 under the name of 'Aylesford Papermill' and its main purpose was to create paper for newsprint production, mainly sending its paper to the London Press.
The newsprint was the longest producer of 100% recycled newsprint plant. It used paper and magazines that would usually be destined for landfill or waste and transformed it into high grade quality newsprint.
They would need 500,000 Tonnes of paper and magazines would be needed to make 400,00 tonnes of newsprint every year.
But, over the last few decades the need for newsprint has declined, mainly due to the fact most newspapers are now found online and people aren't buying physical paper copies anymore.
In March 2015, the plant closed with a loss of 230 jobs.
Today
Today the site is currently in the process of being stripped out and being prepared for demolition.
Most of the big machinery has been sold off but some still remains inside the buildings.
There are plans for the place to be turned into a housing site, which could accommodate up to 500 new homes.
The newsprint is set to be completely demolished by Summer of 2017, and they've already started.
The Explore
So, i had seen quite a few posts about this place and really needed to get my arse in gear and have a nose.
When we got to the site we were greeted by numerous amounts of huge warehouse buildings and also a few nice chimney stacks which can be seen from a fare few distance away.
After yet again having a pre-explore macdonalds, we decided to make our move on the newsprint. Access was easy enough, with a bit of common sense you're in.
There is an active security presence on site and had to just keep our eyes open for anyone inside.
We ended up being in there about 3 hours before the presence of the workers and security got quite high and we had decided we had seen enough and thought it was then a good idea to leave.
But, we stupidly mangaged to walk out infront of some workers and was threatened by the security bloke who worked there who progressed onto trying to steal our gear, swearing at us and even punching @DRZ_Explorer in the face he then topped it off by telling us that 'he'd fucking kill us' if we didn't do what he said. All in all not a nice guy, he then proceeded on to try and say that he owned my SD Card and Camera because it was on his land, was quite funny to see him get more angry as we denied what he wanted us to do which was delete our photos. Anyway after he then locked us in the security office he said if we deleted our photos then he'd let us go. Jokes on him though, photo recovery is a thing! Hey ho, at least we got the easy way out!
Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to look at the turbines, mainly due to the fact it was right next to where the workers were and decided it was a little bit too bait.
Explored this one with @DRZ_Explorer and was a really good site to have a mooch around and would recommend people to not leave it too late, it doesn't look like it'll be around to see another Christmas!
Enjoy.
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