I mostly explore places on my own, and can go back and forth over the same spot a dozen times during one visit. On my first visit to woodly mill there was a load of kids running around being very loud and peace breaking, however since that first visit, the place seems quiet, and after going there a few times, I have discovered that this mill is a lot larger than I thought. The outside is deceiving, the building being a lot smaller than it looks. And then I noticed the small buildings next to it, one a small changing rooms and the other a large room with two smaller rooms at the side. The main building itself is mostly intact, the first floor being the worst, with missing floor slabs and set of toilets and showers, the urinals still mostly intact. The second and third floors are mostly empty, being that they are just one room floors makes this less surprising but more dissapointing. The outside of the mill from the car park just looks like a load of modern extensions which destroys the austhetic immediately. However, the main entrance side is a picturesque look of a victorian mill, complete with broken windows and rubble galore. The modern part of the building is unsurprisingly wrecked, it being mostly prefabricated and weak structured, and highly dangerous, as on my second visit, I watched a large air-con unit smash onto the floor from the broken roof. It was around 3/4 in size and was too heavy for me to pick up my self. The rest of the modern section is pure rubble and overgrown rooms/indoor gardens. This is a great place to explore, if not a little empty, but stands as a fantastic example of virctorian engineering and shows off perfectly how an hundred and odd year old building can outlive any modern structure, no competition.
