My first post, so please excuse the poor quality photos, they were taken on my phone.
A quick lunchtime exploration of Unity Works on Vittoria Street in the Jewellery Quarter was the home of a stampers and light fitting company up until about the mid 1980s I believe.
It was unoccupied for Much of the time after that. I remember been shown around there in the mid-1990s when I was studying architecture, and the caretaker let me have a nose around. The place was an Aladdin’s cave full of unfinished pots, ornaments and light fittings: it was as if someone left work on a Friday and never came back.
By coincidence I ended up working close by and always wanted to take another look around. Anyway, long story short, I noticed that the gate had been left wide open a few days ago so I took the opportunity to take a good look around.
Sadly, alot of the unfinished metalwork has gone- the building is going to be converted to flats and workers carted out a lot of the stuff a couple of years ago. Still a great place to explore though.
I’ll try and dig put my old pictures from the 1990s sometime.
Hope you like the pictures.
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A quick lunchtime exploration of Unity Works on Vittoria Street in the Jewellery Quarter was the home of a stampers and light fitting company up until about the mid 1980s I believe.
It was unoccupied for Much of the time after that. I remember been shown around there in the mid-1990s when I was studying architecture, and the caretaker let me have a nose around. The place was an Aladdin’s cave full of unfinished pots, ornaments and light fittings: it was as if someone left work on a Friday and never came back.
By coincidence I ended up working close by and always wanted to take another look around. Anyway, long story short, I noticed that the gate had been left wide open a few days ago so I took the opportunity to take a good look around.
Sadly, alot of the unfinished metalwork has gone- the building is going to be converted to flats and workers carted out a lot of the stuff a couple of years ago. Still a great place to explore though.
I’ll try and dig put my old pictures from the 1990s sometime.
Hope you like the pictures.
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