Report - tripe factory,july 2014 burnley , lancashire

[Lancashire lad]

This has been on my to do list for years as I originate from burnley and have seen this place on numerous occasions but just never though to urbex it until I got into it properly. The main building was a tripe processing plant and there are a few out houses left showing signs of major fire damage, the council demolished half of the tripe works back in the nineties as it was unsafe so the access to the upstairs has gone but theres still a little bit to see there are loading doors onto the canal and a crane lift on the roof so maybe they shipped it out onto boats back in the day? The factory was owned by ralph mason ltd and was part of the bigger ucp group who had factories and restaurants across Lancashire im unsure of when the building became derelict as I cant find any info on it but I have a source who says it was the early 80s.

 

[Miss Mayhem]

Good effort
Any history?

 

[Lancashire lad]

no cant find a single thing ive google the hell out of it all I know it was owned by ralph mason and the ucp group who were quite prevalent in Lancashire for there offal factories like the tripe works ect they went bust ill keep looking and post some if I find any

 

[clebby]

Sorry state of affairs that!

 

[Lancashire lad]

Sorry state of affairs that!

yep would of thought some history would be recorded somewhere ive found the chap they called ralph mason , he was a burnley lad lived and died here but died a bachelor gives his old home address and birth/year of death but not a scrap of history on the factory ive found one black n white image of what it looked like on google images and that it

 

[clebby]

Stick the picture up, would be interesting to see

 

[Lancashire lad]

this is when they built the fly over at burnley in the sixties top left of pik you can see ralph mason tripe factory

 

[Punk]

Looks a nice little mooch, glad you're getting the hang of attaching files now. Couple of the shots look HDR'd, which is something I wouldn't recommend. But good work on the report

 

[Lancashire lad]

Looks a nice little mooch, glad you're getting the hang of attaching files now. Couple of the shots look HDR'd, which is something I wouldn't recommend. But good work on the report

I must admit at this point id only been into photography about four months I had my new camera and some nice editing suite and got a bit giddy with the effects looking back I now realize there a bit of a mistake so these old urbexes will mostly look the same but the ones I have planned this year will be a little more professional looking

 

[Punk]

I must admit at this point id only been into photography about four months I had my new camera and some nice editing suite and got a bit giddy with the effects looking back I now realize there a bit of a mistake so these old urbexes will mostly look the same but the ones I have planned this year will be a little more professional looking

Personally, the only editing I do is put a border on and straighten the pics up if they're wonky(which they usually are).
But good exploring though and with time you'll get the jist of this exploring malarkey. And don't take any criticism personally, take it constructively and you'll be fine

 

[Lancashire lad]

Personally, the only editing I do is put a border on and straighten the pics up if they're wonky(which they usually are).
But good exploring though and with time you'll get the jist of this exploring malarkey. And don't take any criticism personally, take it constructively and you'll be fine

no probs all critism welcome its helps us learn I suppose

 

[Pest]

I like the graffiti in the no.6 picture!

 

[Cuuvin]

nice report (getting a little close to HDARRRRRRRRGH, me thinks ... )

 

[Lancashire lad]

yeh its a nice bit of unfinished graff , @Cuuvin yeh I went mad with tone mapping when I started with the new editing suite don't worry I soon learned my lesson