Cereal Partners - Shredded Wheat -Welwyn Garden City -April 2009

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The original company opened a factory in Welwyn Garden City (UK) in 1926, which became part of Nabisco in 1928.The tall concrete cereal silos that form part of the factory are a local landmark and are listed structures, built by Peter Lind & Company of London. In 1988 Nabisco sold the UK site to Rank Hovis McDougall (who made own-label cereals for supermarkets), whose breakfast cereals division briefly became The Shredded Wheat Company. In 1990 RHM sold the site to Cereal Partners. Some Shredded Wheat is made at Staverton near Bath, where all Shredded Wheat will be produced from 2008, when the Welwyn Garden City site is shut down. Rumouor has it that Tesco's have bought the site, there are certain live areas offices etc. but the whole site is to be demolished apart from the Silos.

Visited with Natevansate, LiamCH and a couple of others from a different forum.

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"The shredded wheat grinding and recovery system"...:confused::lol:
Never did like shredded wheat...it's like eating a haystack! :mrgreen:
Fabulous photos and an interesting looking site, vm. Love the last pic. :)
 
"The shredded wheat grinding and recovery system"...:confused::lol:
Never did like shredded wheat...it's like eating a haystack! :mrgreen:
Fabulous photos and an interesting looking site, vm. Love the last pic. :)

I agree Foxy. Horrible horrible stuff! Yuk! I like Weetabix! Helps me climb up and down railway cuttings!!!:mrgreen:
 
Wowsers the place looks huuuuge! In good nick too.

Nice pics mate and i'm loving the kitchen one especially. did you hdr a few of them?? Also did you manage to get on to the taller roof?
see you saturday!
 
Wowsers the place looks huuuuge! In good nick too.

Nice pics mate and i'm loving the kitchen one especially. did you hdr a few of them?? Also did you manage to get on to the taller roof?
see you saturday!

Hey Roy, the kitchen one is actually a washing area on the main production floor, no HDR I used off camera flash though.......it was on the floor to the right of the frame bout 1/4 power same for the engineering department.......yes I climbed to the top of the silo think Nate may have some pics.
 
Also did you manage to get on to the taller roof?

Here you go mate, one of me climbing the silo and a group shot on the roof, thanks for the pics Adrian :)

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From left to right, Me, Rob, Natevansate, Adrian and LiamCH

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Very jealous, work just round the corner, always a bit concerned about the amount of live activity, I'll assume you picked a sensible time to do this. Also a bit concerned that Foxy eats haystacks :)
 
Very jealous, work just round the corner, always a bit concerned about the amount of live activity, I'll assume you picked a sensible time to do this. Also a bit concerned that Foxy eats haystacks :)

Nope middle of a weekday, and like you said it is busy and the roads outside were gridlocked with traffic beacuse of the roadworks on the crossroads.
 
A quick visit by Lutex and myself - we were hoping to get up the silos but no such luck. A few quick pics...

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Els top job mate.......glad you made it :mrgreen:

The night time and your fisheye lens give the place a completely different look, very nice.
 

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