It's been, ooh, 15 minutes since I last did a report on this place 
Sadly, it now looks as if this place doesn't have much longer...
Firstly the WW2-era Cordite press houses - this part is very torn up, looks like for buried electrical cable and scrap, very smashed up but still some lovely details left, like this Tangye press:
Some more things from the Cordite houses:
Now the destruction - the Nitroglycerine hills have been attacked with a JCB, digging into the berms and demolishing the buildings inside. The unique gunpowder section has had some tracks bulldozed into it, and the edge-runner mills have been smashed up and removed:
Those edge-runner mills were unique. Even the museum at Waltham Abbey only has a replica - there were three in very good condition here, there's now one left and it's probably going soon. Pissed off doesn't begin to cover what I think of this destruction.
Finally, from the labs, some old colour films:
Go see this place while you can - it's not going to last much longer...
Loads more in my Flickr set.
Sadly, it now looks as if this place doesn't have much longer...Firstly the WW2-era Cordite press houses - this part is very torn up, looks like for buried electrical cable and scrap, very smashed up but still some lovely details left, like this Tangye press:
Some more things from the Cordite houses:
Now the destruction - the Nitroglycerine hills have been attacked with a JCB, digging into the berms and demolishing the buildings inside. The unique gunpowder section has had some tracks bulldozed into it, and the edge-runner mills have been smashed up and removed:
Those edge-runner mills were unique. Even the museum at Waltham Abbey only has a replica - there were three in very good condition here, there's now one left and it's probably going soon. Pissed off doesn't begin to cover what I think of this destruction.
Finally, from the labs, some old colour films:
Go see this place while you can - it's not going to last much longer...
Loads more in my Flickr set.
