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cactusmelba

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Already a gazillion reports on this place, but still a place full of character and relics of yesteryear, with the highlights for me being the wooden machinery which is just amazing, and the continuous belt elevator...

pics..

amperes
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BIG belts (driving the floor manager's cup'o'tea-matic 2000.)
belts.jpg


ALWAYS wondered what was behind those round windows.. (not a lot)
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HUGE boiler..
boiler.jpg


some kind of screw conveyor system
corkscrew.jpg


MAD elevators...
crazyelevator.jpg


detritus
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panoramic from the top
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buttons..
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thought I was back home in my study..
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Brilliant Wooden machinery! this stuff goes on for AGES, immaculately crafted and still looking good as new.. loved it!
panelledmachinery.jpg

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simon.jpg

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another couple of panoramics..
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Top stuff matey. Might be many previous Reports, but never get bored of seeing piccies from here. That lift must have been before the days of H & S! :eek:
The old machinery and pulleys are wayyyyy cool!

Thanks for posting :)
 
Nice place and nice photos, this place loos excellent, Im loving all that old wooden machinary.
Do you have any external shots, I have no idea what it looks like :neutral:
And where is this place?
 
^its in Hull, here you go: my pics from the same explore:

Here is the Mill, at night (on film):
Photo26_22ARankHovisSmall.jpg


Stitched panoramic looking over Hull:
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Bags of flour:
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I don’t even know what this is, but flour went down it (on film):
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The floors of the mill are still lined with rows of wooden flour coated machinery, they don’t make them like that anymore (on Film):
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Me looking out of one of the infamous round windows (on film):
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