Hi everyone and welcome to my 1st ever report 
I met up with another 28DL member The Lone Shadow yesterday for a road trip into Leicester to venture out around whatever disused and derelict places we could find. Unfortunately 1 of our main options fell through (it had been renovated and is up for sale) which was a shame as it was derelict for 8 years and not 1 post on here about it. This was our 4th find but my god the hugest one of the day and probably my favorite too. I know this has been reported quite a few times on here already so i wont go into too much detail on the history, It opened in 1865 and closed in the 1990's and was 1 of Europe's biggest hosiery factory's, By the 1900's it employed over a thousand people mostly women and was the makers of Mark's & Spencer's brand St Michael's. By the 1970's their annual trade with Mark's & Spencer's was in the excess of £20 million.
Now on to the pictures (apologies for not 100% pic quality i was using a samsung galaxy s4)
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this looks like a security office but didn't see anyone about
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Thanks for looking feedback is always welcome just go easy on me as its my 1st time lol
and a big thanks to The Lone Shadow for all the driving that day it had to be the most productive an interesting explore for us so far
Thanks again everyone
The Devil Child
I met up with another 28DL member The Lone Shadow yesterday for a road trip into Leicester to venture out around whatever disused and derelict places we could find. Unfortunately 1 of our main options fell through (it had been renovated and is up for sale) which was a shame as it was derelict for 8 years and not 1 post on here about it. This was our 4th find but my god the hugest one of the day and probably my favorite too. I know this has been reported quite a few times on here already so i wont go into too much detail on the history, It opened in 1865 and closed in the 1990's and was 1 of Europe's biggest hosiery factory's, By the 1900's it employed over a thousand people mostly women and was the makers of Mark's & Spencer's brand St Michael's. By the 1970's their annual trade with Mark's & Spencer's was in the excess of £20 million.Now on to the pictures (apologies for not 100% pic quality i was using a samsung galaxy s4)
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this looks like a security office but didn't see anyone about
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Thanks for looking feedback is always welcome just go easy on me as its my 1st time lol
and a big thanks to The Lone Shadow for all the driving that day it had to be the most productive an interesting explore for us so far
Thanks again everyone
The Devil Child
