Found this one while looking for another place I had spotted. Swansea Visteon plant was originally built in 1959 for the Prestcold fridge company and was bought by Ford who manufactured car axle and transmission components there. They used to make gearboxes for Jaguar amongst others. It went into recievership in 2009 after ford sold it to Visteon, with the loss of thousands of jobs. Quite a lot of history in this place.
This place is enormous, it stands in a 120,000m2 site and we went there planning to spend an hour looking around. It took about 2 hours in the end. The main factory goes on for ever and looking from one end to the other made Welsh_noir look like a dot in the distance. Its the emptiest factory I've ever been in, its been completely stripped of everything, apart from a few chairs and tables there is not much there. I noticed a board that said Lassco had been there, they are are an architectural salvage company. Quite a lot of light fittings and bulbs laying around though.
Looks like nobody has been here for a while, not even the local gypsies who get in everywhere around here. Nothing broken or smashed, not bad as its been shut for 6 years. Makes a change to the smashed up warzones I'm used to. Canteen still has tables and chairs in place but nearly all the rooms are empty shells. The whole factory floor is covered with bird feathers and droppings and there is a board listing hazards warning you about it.
The only room with fittings in is the clean room for the computers, which has big handles and sealing doors like a fridge.
This place is enormous, it stands in a 120,000m2 site and we went there planning to spend an hour looking around. It took about 2 hours in the end. The main factory goes on for ever and looking from one end to the other made Welsh_noir look like a dot in the distance. Its the emptiest factory I've ever been in, its been completely stripped of everything, apart from a few chairs and tables there is not much there. I noticed a board that said Lassco had been there, they are are an architectural salvage company. Quite a lot of light fittings and bulbs laying around though.
Looks like nobody has been here for a while, not even the local gypsies who get in everywhere around here. Nothing broken or smashed, not bad as its been shut for 6 years. Makes a change to the smashed up warzones I'm used to. Canteen still has tables and chairs in place but nearly all the rooms are empty shells. The whole factory floor is covered with bird feathers and droppings and there is a board listing hazards warning you about it.
The only room with fittings in is the clean room for the computers, which has big handles and sealing doors like a fridge.