The problem with GPS is that you need to put the right data in - I put in the address I found for this place, drove over there, and found lots of new flats. But I'd spotted an empty factory nearby which looked worth a go - it was only once I got inside that I realised that this was the place I was looking for 
The Nestle Purina factory in Barrhead, near Glasgow, made pet food - with a brief break to make baby food. The 200 employees were laid off in 2004, when Nestle decided that the factory was uneconomic.
First into the big storage warehouse:
A rather odd sign:
Impressive colour coding in the compressor house - no red, green or blue here, someone wanted to be an artist:
And some good big compressors (or pumps?):
In a completely darkened room, someone had been relaxing:
The boardroom had a lovely parquet floor:
A bunch of training rooms:
A quite ironic sign in the foyer:
The factory floor:
The fire safe in a burnt-out office:
Up on the roof:
And the factory from the outside:
There are plans to build 160 houses and some shops on the site, but no sign of anything happening yet.
More pictures in my Flickr set...
The Nestle Purina factory in Barrhead, near Glasgow, made pet food - with a brief break to make baby food. The 200 employees were laid off in 2004, when Nestle decided that the factory was uneconomic.
First into the big storage warehouse:
A rather odd sign:
Impressive colour coding in the compressor house - no red, green or blue here, someone wanted to be an artist:
And some good big compressors (or pumps?):
In a completely darkened room, someone had been relaxing:
The boardroom had a lovely parquet floor:
A bunch of training rooms:
A quite ironic sign in the foyer:
The factory floor:
The fire safe in a burnt-out office:
Up on the roof:
And the factory from the outside:
There are plans to build 160 houses and some shops on the site, but no sign of anything happening yet.
More pictures in my Flickr set...
