West Bromwich Spring Factory
The Visit
Been here a grand total of 3 times over October as its a local one, visited with Oakleyframer, Jdotn15 and 2 non members.
The first explore with Jake started with a sketchy entrance but went smoothly, few signs that some of the site is definitely active then we bumped into about 7 people and one chihuahua who nicely showed us a more convenient exit
Other two explores the same relaxed and easy.
Bit of history pinched from Oakleyframer who pinched off HT
In West Bromwich is the West Bromwich Spring Co. Ltd, also known as Helical Works. The West
Bromwich Spring has been at the forefront of precision manufacturing since 1896. Their website
boasted a claim Precision springs made to order: Any Design. Any Quantity. Any Time.
Found it difficult to find a lot of history on the place online for some reason, just loads of links to
yell.com etc giving details of the business as if it was still up and running, which makes sense I
suppose as the site is roughly 25% live with only the rear areas falling into dereliction. Found some
disjointed info about the owner legging it from the site and not returning after a large quantity of
his machinery failed safety checks in 2007 and it would've been too expensive to bring the
equipment up to satisfactory standards. The company was valued by an independent body around
this time at £-110,892. The unknown owner currently rents parts of the complex out to private businesses.
Piccies
draws (1 of 1)
van (1 of 1)
sign (1 of 1)
floor reflection (1 of 1)
machines (1 of 1)
lots of coils (1 of 1)
coils (1 of 1)
sacks (1 of 1)
floor (1 of 1)
factory floor (1 of 1)
outside (1 of 1)
workspace (1 of 1)
tv (1 of 1)
Thanks for looking guys
name (1 of 1)
The Visit
Been here a grand total of 3 times over October as its a local one, visited with Oakleyframer, Jdotn15 and 2 non members.
The first explore with Jake started with a sketchy entrance but went smoothly, few signs that some of the site is definitely active then we bumped into about 7 people and one chihuahua who nicely showed us a more convenient exit
Other two explores the same relaxed and easy.Bit of history pinched from Oakleyframer who pinched off HT
In West Bromwich is the West Bromwich Spring Co. Ltd, also known as Helical Works. The West
Bromwich Spring has been at the forefront of precision manufacturing since 1896. Their website
boasted a claim Precision springs made to order: Any Design. Any Quantity. Any Time.
Found it difficult to find a lot of history on the place online for some reason, just loads of links to
yell.com etc giving details of the business as if it was still up and running, which makes sense I
suppose as the site is roughly 25% live with only the rear areas falling into dereliction. Found some
disjointed info about the owner legging it from the site and not returning after a large quantity of
his machinery failed safety checks in 2007 and it would've been too expensive to bring the
equipment up to satisfactory standards. The company was valued by an independent body around
this time at £-110,892. The unknown owner currently rents parts of the complex out to private businesses.
Piccies
Thanks for looking guys
