From what I was told by the adjacent construction team after my visit, this factory closed down in the early 1980’s. It is categorized under the Manufacture of other Containers and use to supply paper and textile products and equipment for the shipping industry including such items as life jackets. The painted sign on the brickwork outside the store states it’s a ships chandlers and sailmakers.
The elderly owner is sadly suffering from health issues, but the building is thankfully spared demolition and redevelopment into housing is a future hope.
The explore…
A huge thanks to Dez
for letting me know about this little gem just in time, as I can’t always get online so I’m often missing out on good places. He text me a couple of pics that he’d seen online and I just knew we had to give this place a try.
The first attempt ended in me setting off the PIR’s, sec turned up, a decent chap and we had a chat, so I had to leave my bat hunting for another night
The second morning I was luckier, but gutted for Dez as he couldn’t make it. However he turned up just in the nick of time to call me to say he was standing outside the building whilst a couple of workmen were putting up a ladder and measuring up the window to secure it. So I hurriedly grabbed some final shots and then had to try to let them know I was still inside without scaring the hell outa the guy on the ladder. They were obviously very surprised when I called out just as the boarding was going on, but I thought that would give them less of a shock than me just appearing at the window lookin like an idiot
(now I won’t lie lol, it did cross my mind to just get sealed into the place so I could have some more time in there as I didn’t get to see all of the floors, but I couldn’t really leave my good mate hanging about outside all day so I thought it best to leave).
Are we heading for an urbex murder???
After I got out of the building we were chatting to some of the construction crew and we were told about some previous explorers a few weeks before. Two guys turned up on the site and asked for access permission but were declined. They then went back a few weeks later and palms were greased and access gained. They took their pics and left with more stuff than what they turned up with. They then called their contact back to ask him was it ok if they came over with a van to clear the place out
. He said no, but has since got wind of a plan to break in and steal all the stuff. I just found this really sad. It’s not in the spirit of exploring…is it?
It doesn’t bother me how people decide to get into places, but photographing them and putting pic’s online for people to see and then wanting to clear the place just seems extremely shallow and selfish. Take this as a comparison, say I was a wildlife photographer...hold on hear me out I spend many hours, days, weeks researching my subject, the tiger. I lay out loads of dollars on fuel, invest time and money working out how to capture the pics, drive all over the shop in clapped out motors, cars breaking down on motorways, hitting badgers at silly o’clock in the morning ripping out me rad, repair costs, getting nicked, many nights spent kipping in the car and eating miserable grub, various failed attempts, dodgy situations, risky places, bumping into proper numpties, you get the picture.
Then one day you’re lucky, you manage to find the big cat you’ve been searching for, suddenly all of your misfortunes just don’t seem to matter so much anymore. It’s there right in front of you, it’s beautiful, it’s amazing, you photograph it, then shoot it. I’m alright jack, I’ve got my pic’s…have a look at them online, but don’t be taking any of your own, I’ve fixed that. It just doesn’t sit right with me.
Are these people on some massive ego trip? Do they need “exclusives?” Are they addicted to “the likes?”. What drives them? One-up-manship? Cause its not “friendly banter” when it’s taken to these extremes, and I don’t think it’s always money motivated. Of course there’s competitive people in every walk of life, you make the rules you break the rules etc, but when a “community” loses sight of any integrity and no one gives a shit anymore except out doing each other and will do so at what ever the consequences, I think we need to ask ourselves a few questions…like, what is this really all about? Maybe take a reality check?
I’ve lost count of how many fantastic places I’ve seen online only to arrive and find the soul of the place has been ripped out and all the best bits have gone, a professional job done. I know life certainly isn’t fair and there’s no level playing field…but really, what next??? Is urbex bringing out the sociopath / psychopath in you??? are we heading for our first urbex murder? But seriously, life is too short to be pissing on other people’s fireworks, have a heart, have some respect.
So now I’ve got that off my chest, on with some pic’s…
Liverpool 024 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 055 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 076 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 078 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 082 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 127 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 154 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 168 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 198 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 205 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 213 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 225 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 555 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 300 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 320 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 341 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 358 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 375 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 385 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 453 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 456 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 467 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 506 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 539 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 584 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 649 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 645 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 718 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 685 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 691 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 753 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 782 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 809 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Liverpool 707 by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
I had just set up the tripod in this room, if you look closely out of the window you can just see one of the construction guys in a high viz measuring up the window for the boarding, quite an intense moment but also rather funny, my game was nearly up.
Liverpool 816 copy by Pretty Vacant, on Flickr
Thanks for lookin folks...
Be lucky, be safe
The elderly owner is sadly suffering from health issues, but the building is thankfully spared demolition and redevelopment into housing is a future hope.
The explore…
A huge thanks to Dez
for letting me know about this little gem just in time, as I can’t always get online so I’m often missing out on good places. He text me a couple of pics that he’d seen online and I just knew we had to give this place a try. The first attempt ended in me setting off the PIR’s, sec turned up, a decent chap and we had a chat, so I had to leave my bat hunting for another night
The second morning I was luckier, but gutted for Dez as he couldn’t make it. However he turned up just in the nick of time to call me to say he was standing outside the building whilst a couple of workmen were putting up a ladder and measuring up the window to secure it. So I hurriedly grabbed some final shots and then had to try to let them know I was still inside without scaring the hell outa the guy on the ladder. They were obviously very surprised when I called out just as the boarding was going on, but I thought that would give them less of a shock than me just appearing at the window lookin like an idiot
(now I won’t lie lol, it did cross my mind to just get sealed into the place so I could have some more time in there as I didn’t get to see all of the floors, but I couldn’t really leave my good mate hanging about outside all day so I thought it best to leave). Are we heading for an urbex murder???
After I got out of the building we were chatting to some of the construction crew and we were told about some previous explorers a few weeks before. Two guys turned up on the site and asked for access permission but were declined. They then went back a few weeks later and palms were greased and access gained. They took their pics and left with more stuff than what they turned up with. They then called their contact back to ask him was it ok if they came over with a van to clear the place out
. He said no, but has since got wind of a plan to break in and steal all the stuff. I just found this really sad. It’s not in the spirit of exploring…is it? It doesn’t bother me how people decide to get into places, but photographing them and putting pic’s online for people to see and then wanting to clear the place just seems extremely shallow and selfish. Take this as a comparison, say I was a wildlife photographer...hold on hear me out
I spend many hours, days, weeks researching my subject, the tiger. I lay out loads of dollars on fuel, invest time and money working out how to capture the pics, drive all over the shop in clapped out motors, cars breaking down on motorways, hitting badgers at silly o’clock in the morning ripping out me rad, repair costs, getting nicked, many nights spent kipping in the car and eating miserable grub, various failed attempts, dodgy situations, risky places, bumping into proper numpties, you get the picture. Then one day you’re lucky, you manage to find the big cat you’ve been searching for, suddenly all of your misfortunes just don’t seem to matter so much anymore. It’s there right in front of you, it’s beautiful, it’s amazing, you photograph it, then shoot it. I’m alright jack, I’ve got my pic’s…have a look at them online, but don’t be taking any of your own, I’ve fixed that. It just doesn’t sit right with me.
Are these people on some massive ego trip? Do they need “exclusives?” Are they addicted to “the likes?”. What drives them? One-up-manship? Cause its not “friendly banter” when it’s taken to these extremes, and I don’t think it’s always money motivated. Of course there’s competitive people in every walk of life, you make the rules you break the rules etc, but when a “community” loses sight of any integrity and no one gives a shit anymore except out doing each other and will do so at what ever the consequences, I think we need to ask ourselves a few questions…like, what is this really all about? Maybe take a reality check?
I’ve lost count of how many fantastic places I’ve seen online only to arrive and find the soul of the place has been ripped out and all the best bits have gone, a professional job done. I know life certainly isn’t fair and there’s no level playing field…but really, what next??? Is urbex bringing out the sociopath / psychopath in you??? are we heading for our first urbex murder? But seriously, life is too short to be pissing on other people’s fireworks, have a heart, have some respect.
So now I’ve got that off my chest
, on with some pic’s…Liverpool 024 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 055 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 076 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 078 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 082 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 127 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 154 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 168 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 198 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 205 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 213 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 225 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 555 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 300 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 320 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 341 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 358 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 375 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 385 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 453 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 456 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 467 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 506 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 539 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 584 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 649 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 645 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 718 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 685 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 691 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 753 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 782 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 809 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrLiverpool 707 by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrI had just set up the tripod in this room, if you look closely out of the window you can just see one of the construction guys in a high viz measuring up the window for the boarding, quite an intense moment but also rather funny, my game was nearly up.
Liverpool 816 copy by Pretty Vacant, on FlickrThanks for lookin folks...
Be lucky, be safe
