The Explore
One from a few months back whilst I was on a Work Placement up in Leeds. We went to this one with the intentions of just getting externals; due to what went on here, and the various scary stories about what's left behind. It was a lovely, hot day back in the Dry Spell we had in Mid July, and the adrenaline kicked in as we saw a board missing and headed inside. Perhaps we should have made more of an effort; but it hasn't produced the forbidden candy floss for some time now. The only thing I didn't like; was the local toe rags in there, kicking shit around and working up dust.
Turners is an Urbex Classic. and whilst fucked, it has some wonderful lighting inside it which makes for some lush photos. We didn't get round it all, and missed the filtration room, but all told it was a great afternoon!
The History (Borrowed from @JaffaTB)
The business was founded in 1871 in Rochdale as Turner Brothers by John, Robert and Samuel Turner to manufacture cotton-cloth-based mechanical packing.
In 1879 it became the first business in the UK to weave Asbestos Cloth with power-driven machines, The company changed its name to "Turner Brothers Asbestos Company."
As part of the business; the company was one of the first to industrialise asbestos, and its eventual demise and subsequent closure in 2001 became entangled with issues of asbestos litigation. Asbestos-related disease had become widely acknowledged due to a coroner's report into the death of Nellie Kershaw, a worker at the factory, in 1924, and various parliamentary inquiries and reports into asbestos-related disease thereafter. The company had directed their lawyers to strongly defend all such claims, due to the risk of litigation.
Following the collapse of the business, which went into administration in October 2001; leaving a pension fund deficit estimated at £400 million, UK victims of the company's asbestos pollution were offered a fraction of the compensation to which they were entitled
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One from a few months back whilst I was on a Work Placement up in Leeds. We went to this one with the intentions of just getting externals; due to what went on here, and the various scary stories about what's left behind. It was a lovely, hot day back in the Dry Spell we had in Mid July, and the adrenaline kicked in as we saw a board missing and headed inside. Perhaps we should have made more of an effort; but it hasn't produced the forbidden candy floss for some time now. The only thing I didn't like; was the local toe rags in there, kicking shit around and working up dust.
Turners is an Urbex Classic. and whilst fucked, it has some wonderful lighting inside it which makes for some lush photos. We didn't get round it all, and missed the filtration room, but all told it was a great afternoon!
The History (Borrowed from @JaffaTB)
The business was founded in 1871 in Rochdale as Turner Brothers by John, Robert and Samuel Turner to manufacture cotton-cloth-based mechanical packing.
In 1879 it became the first business in the UK to weave Asbestos Cloth with power-driven machines, The company changed its name to "Turner Brothers Asbestos Company."
As part of the business; the company was one of the first to industrialise asbestos, and its eventual demise and subsequent closure in 2001 became entangled with issues of asbestos litigation. Asbestos-related disease had become widely acknowledged due to a coroner's report into the death of Nellie Kershaw, a worker at the factory, in 1924, and various parliamentary inquiries and reports into asbestos-related disease thereafter. The company had directed their lawyers to strongly defend all such claims, due to the risk of litigation.
Following the collapse of the business, which went into administration in October 2001; leaving a pension fund deficit estimated at £400 million, UK victims of the company's asbestos pollution were offered a fraction of the compensation to which they were entitled
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