Report - E.P Bray and Co, Charlesworth

[WhatAChop]

E.P Bray and Co, a pigment works in Charlesworth. This is my first explore. Access was easy, although someone had been and boarded up some entrances. As it was my first explore I spent about ten minutes peeking into various entrances looking for rabid bums or anything else unsavoury. There were florescent tubes broken at almost every entrance. I also left my dslr at home for this one as I didn't really know what to expect. I apologise in advance for the quality of some of these.

View down the side

The worker's houses

Someone had piled all the stuff from the lab into this warehouse

A heater

The usual red wall shot

Looking the other way down the warehouse

Some oil drums

Some electrical stuff

If this guy was supposed to be taping the switch, I think he missed

The chair

Someone didn't like June 2005

Bench of tools

I don't know what this is. I hope it's the paint. Someone's tried to pour it out and probably met an grizzly end

Torture chambers

The quest board

The lab

The brew room

 

[Dave2612]

I worked here as a holiday job for four weeks back in the 70s - pay was £20 a week, good for the time. It was a health and safety nightmare! You were given a pint of milk a week to prevent lead poisoning. The 'warehouse' pictured was the factory floor. There were very large wooden drums sat on the lower floor but pushed up to the edge so that material could be thrown or fed into them from the higher level. Lead based dyes were the result. The worst jobs were bagging the resulting dyes - a filthy and dangerous activity that I did not do. One chap's job was to melt down large (approx 40Cm x10 X10) lead bars and feed the molten metal into a tank of water so it solidified in sheets. Then the spongy result was dissolved in Nitric acid to produce lead nitrate - dangerous or what... One job I had was mixing up some titanium based paint for green houses - final job was to throw in some antifungal stuff. What do I do then, I asked - Run for it was the answer!

 

[deepdiver]

i built the torture chambers they were for various gas cylinders used in the lab above, the whole place was a health and safety nightmare

 

[Dave2612]

Thanks Deepdiver I wondered what they were! I recall once filling a bucket with some very strong ammonia from a drum (I think it was ammonia, pretty noxious stuff anyway) then having to rapidly leave the building to avoid breathing the fumes! One morning we turned up and there had been a sulphur dioxide leak which was still hanging around - could not get near the place for it. Staff turnover was considerable, after four weeks I was considered an old hand... Those were the days!