Bath Street mill - May 2009

After getting told about this place by a friend, I decided to go for a bit of an explore, no doubt this place has been done loads of times before. Apologese if these photo's aren't good - I'm pretty new to this.

We didn't...


It's amazing what random stuff you find.


Original lift shaft.


As you can see, the stairs aren't in working order








... I have more photo's but wasn't sure what the limit on photo's was.

I really like the way that in the building, you can visibly see the change from when it was a mill, through to offices.

Enjoy!

This is nice. Don't think I know this one...whereabouts is this?
Your photos are fine, Jimba. It really depends on yourself and on the explore as to how many pics you post. If there's quite a few it helps loading if the pics are resized down though.
Welcome to DP, btw.

I think its the one in Derby foxy but I may be wrong

Cheers, fezzy. I didn't recognise the name or pics, so just wondered.

Thank you I tried to resize the images but it didn't seem to work.
Yeah, it's the one in Derby, if you know where the River Derwent is, it's very close to that.

I was testing an old camera and had a film to finish not long ago so I popped in here. Noticed someone had forced the gate so was expecting the worst but it appears untouched from when I last visited a year ago (it's now secured; otherwise I wouldn't be mentioning this).

Hope you don't mind if I put a few pictures up; don't have enough for a full report.


Interior


Exterior


Bacon

Bit of history. The building is part of the Derwent Valley heritage site and is almost 200 years old; although it has been extended several times. Original a silk mill it later became a factory and has had numerous uses. It was occupied by a furniture company when it closed; and several of the out buildings were used by smaller firms including a garage and an electrician.

Nice set of photo's, I particuly like the middle one.

Just looking at your photo of bacon (love it btw!) It's amazing what random crap you can find, isn't it? First time I went, I found a toy dragon. The second time I went (which is when I took the photo's above) I found that video of The Matrix, the peices were all over the floor and the third time I went I found a hi-fi speaker not two, just the one! Wonder what will show up next...

For those who are interested in seeing what Bath Street mill looked like before, I have re-uploaded a few of the photo's I took.

Others on the forum have also taken photo's of the inside.

The_Revolution said:

Noticed someone had forced the gate so was expecting the worst but it appears untouched from when I last visited a year ago (it's now secured; otherwise I wouldn't be mentioning this).

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Bugger; I got that wrong