I have been lucky to live close to this former scrapyard. So I have wandered around it many times over the last nine years. Funny thing is every time I go I always find something new to photograph. Just recently I was in the woods photographing fungi. A thing I do regularly this time of year, I was at my regular haunt which basically backs on to medlars. I was wandering through and was at the boundary so popped in to have a look. I was quite shocked to see the clear out over the summer, they have now cleared so much. Ok they have been clearing it regularly now for years but by bit, but they had cleared the buses and vans and more cars. Leaving literally hardly any thing now. It really is not worth travelling to now. If you are local you can still find the odd car, the sheds are still there and still bits about in the woods, most people just concentrate on the main bits either side of the path. I don’t think people realise how much it stretched back into the woods.
Mr Medlar was a bit of an eccentric man. He set up the business in what was a former abbatoir, using the few buildings and sheds. He adapted some for his vehicle business, and used the house to live in. He had many vehicles he kept hidden from being sold or ripped to bits, some really old classics, his cash he kept hidden on site. Medlars prob was one of the biggest scrapyards if not the biggest in the country. After its closure a massive clear out began with lots being taken out. This has been done on a regular basis every few years with bits going here and there. I remember on an early visit seeing an old fire engine. On a visit to a railway heritage centre a few months later I noticed it sat in a compound awaiting restoration.
This going to be a report of two halves looking at what’s left now. And then a little look back from previous visits and what has finally gone for good.
If anyone is interested I stumbled upon this Flickr page from a motor enthusiast who took photos of the site either just before closure or just after.
Here is an aerial shot of what use to be here. If you have been you would know what I circled is generally the area explored. It shows the scale of the place.
On to what’s left now, I had the 65mm macro lens on, so these are all shot on this.
The main drive to Medlars. This use to be lined with classics.
And one set of tiny mushrooms I spotted what I went for originally.
Continued..
Mr Medlar was a bit of an eccentric man. He set up the business in what was a former abbatoir, using the few buildings and sheds. He adapted some for his vehicle business, and used the house to live in. He had many vehicles he kept hidden from being sold or ripped to bits, some really old classics, his cash he kept hidden on site. Medlars prob was one of the biggest scrapyards if not the biggest in the country. After its closure a massive clear out began with lots being taken out. This has been done on a regular basis every few years with bits going here and there. I remember on an early visit seeing an old fire engine. On a visit to a railway heritage centre a few months later I noticed it sat in a compound awaiting restoration.
This going to be a report of two halves looking at what’s left now. And then a little look back from previous visits and what has finally gone for good.
If anyone is interested I stumbled upon this Flickr page from a motor enthusiast who took photos of the site either just before closure or just after.
Here is an aerial shot of what use to be here. If you have been you would know what I circled is generally the area explored. It shows the scale of the place.
On to what’s left now, I had the 65mm macro lens on, so these are all shot on this.
The main drive to Medlars. This use to be lined with classics.
And one set of tiny mushrooms I spotted what I went for originally.
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