Report - Warwick Mill - Middleton - Jan 2017

[Speed]

Visited with Dweeb on a fetid winters day in the fetid arse end of Manchester. Ive missed the last few of these massive red bricked cotton mills so after pawing over the rubble at Maple for a second time we decided to head here and try our luck. What do you know we were lucky! Getting in was a doddle really but once in not easy to get around the inside with every floor but ground level locked and alarmed. Thats part of the fun tho isn't it, finding your way around these issues!

The ground floor of the place was dark and had little to offer with one part modern offices and the other storage units. The engine house wasn't too bad with good amount of tiling left but it was a tad hard to appreciate fully in the pitch black. I settled for snapping a few quick shots before moving on. The rope race at the rear of the engine house had been bricked up to house a lift that would have moved goods from the now re-purposed engine house/loading bay to each floor. Behind this brickwork.. (when we did eventually find a way behind it..) the rope race was pretty intact. From this point on it was a mad dash as alarms wailed and robot vices chatted away to us. I snapped some quick photos of the rope race and the empty mill floors before making a dash for the roof and adding another 'mill tower' shot to the collection.

I believe there are plans to keep the building and convert it. Hopefully it all goes to plan as its a nice one.

 

[MrDevla]

Good work, I was looking at this not too long back, it's a lovely old mill and a shame it's only only used as cheap sub lettings on the ground floor.

 

[Bugsuperstar]

Very nice that Speed.

 

[tallginge]

nice pics them, mate

 

[Bolts]

When I was here at the end of last year the only alarmed floor was the first floor, perhaps they've added more since then as the security car that used to sit at the gate (to the right on your penultimate picture) seems to have gone. Not a bad mill at all and the rope race was certainly impressive as I hadn't seen one before. Did you look at the small room off one of the staircases by the way? Some nice tiling in there and a fancy-looking door on the far side.

Take it you didn't bother with the stripped-out office block next door to the mill

 

[dave]

Great pics and those enamel hoist signs were rather nice.

 

[The Kwan]

Really nice, some of that tiling is lush, gorgeous old building.

 

[Speed]

Was this room at the bottom of the rope race? That's the bit we didn't do I think. Alarm darlek was avoidable if you knew where it was. Belive there was only the one, not that I stopped to check once it went off!