Broadford Works, Some time in 2009 with some chums

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Bryag

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This was the culmination of a rather interesting day, and held many surprises for us. Mostly unwelcome surprises, but there are the breaks. Visited with several others, whose names I will omit to protect the innocent (and the guilty:p) If the rest of my co-conspirators feel so inclined, please feel free to add your pics.:mrgreen:

I will not bother with any history, as others have been here many more times and told the story better than I ever could. If you want to know more, please use the search function. Also known as "Richard's Textile Mill":mrgreen:

This appeared to be part of the training academy
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Profane scales (not for weighing profanity:lol:)
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For information, this floor was disgusting, we encountered several examples of human excrement. It was enough to make you boke!:mad:

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This was my first foray with 35mm film, the upside being my 17-40 lens was actually 17 at the wide side:mrgreen:
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I find the sky's a bit washed out compared to digital, but is was 200 ISO film I was shooting on, I did find it rather grainy. I am currently shooting on 64 ISO, but that is rather pricey:cry:
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Not a huge fan, but found this graff rather cool
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The joys of wide angle on full frame:mrgreen:
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More washed out skies
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Hosepipe tower (one of)
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I hope you enjoy, I/We kind of did :lol::lol::lol:
 
Cracking photos Bryag. I didn't take many, and those that I did take were ruined by the rubbish wide angle attachment.
I wish I had the patience for 35mm.:p
 
Great photos, brought back some good and bad memories of that day haha :p. I'll get round to going through my photos and adding them to here at some point :).
 
ACE!!!!
Would you believe I've never seen those scales before! :)

I'll add some of my pictures if you don't mind!!

But first some news..... I think I've told a few folk but last month I got in touch with the city council archive department regarding the room filled with the old leather bound books dating back to the late 1800's.
Since the recent fire, I was worried that these would go in the same way so I felt I had to do something to save them....

After a few emails, I received this last week:

Dear Laura

You may recall that in September we spoke and exchanged emails regarding records that were languishing within the old Broadford Works (ex Richards Mill) off Maberley Street. I just thought I would let you know that on Tuesday of this week myself and a couple of colleagues removed a transit van's worth of records with the owner's permission. This included a number of the older volumes that you sent me a photograph of. We didn't take them all as they were mostly very detailed records of daily production at the mill or wages paid - in a case like this it is standard archival practice to select a sample only. One of the other offices contained more modern material from the 1960s through to the 1990s.

Removing the older volumes was a very messy job and they will now need to be cleaned by a professional conservator before they can be handled.

Thanks once again for your interest in this All best wishes, Dave

City Archivist
Aberdeen City Archives

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This is the said room:

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And some other pics from the day =]

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oh yeah, and this is where I waited forever to scare you guys, but I think you all seen me first before I seen you!!!

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I must have explored a different mill, I hardly remember anything in your pictures. :lol:
 
I love these..the 3rd from last looks like a scene from the Sweeney.
Thank you, kind sir. Now you come to mention it, it does have that gritty look. And yes I am ALSO old enough to remember The Sweeney.:p

Gorecki, good on you saving those books. Just goes to prove that sometimes the proper channels do some good.The Scales were in one of the floors above the pictures with the blue/yellow pillars. Myself and Melvin went up to the top. Quite alot oif evidence of habitation:exclaim: I had never seen any of this block before, it just seemed to be off route:) Thanks for adding your pics, hopefully RJG and Richard will weigh in with some too. BTW, your bright red urbexing camo was perhaps not appropriate if your intention was to scare:mrgreen:

Richard, most of my pics were taken before we met up, so whoever chapperoned you (Ali I suspect:lol:) may have avoided this one:lol:

Lost, shame your pics did not come out so well, I try to avoid wangle adapters, as you are dependant on the quality of the glass being as good as your lens. Zimbob has one, i do not know if it is good or bad, but he seems to like it.:mrgreen:
 
Nice, the film shots have come out well :)

Sorry I missed this one, sounded fun :lol:

.... wangle adapters.... Zimbob has one, i do not know if it is good or bad, but he seems to like it.:mrgreen:

Mais non! I used to have one for my 350D, it wasn't the best.....
 
I think the only way to go is with a genuine wide angle adapter, they tend to be decent. I've spotted a genuine Sony one which has the same thread as my camera-shite, hopefully that'll save the day.
 
Great stuff Bryag, your film shots really capture the place well. Shame it's all so smashed.
 
Thanks Mr B:)

I bought an EOS 5 from "popular online auction site" for £30, and it operates and meters almost exactly the same as my 40D, but without the crop factor my 17-40 is a really wide lens. It was ideal for some of these shots. I took some digital too, but they were with a cheaper longer lens, so I only posted the film shots.

Incidentally, Tesco do processing onto disc for £1.98, and it appears to be OK. I bought a roll of ISO 64 with processing paid for £12 :eek: but I have not finished off all 36 exposures yet, at that cost I have been a little more careful with my shots.
 
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Liking the grain and muted colours of your film shots, Bryag. Shame that Broadford is getting so smashed up … the owner should be forced either to get on with the redevelopment or hand it over to someone else.
 
Liking the grain and muted colours of your film shots, Bryag. Shame that Broadford is getting so smashed up … the owner should be forced either to get on with the redevelopment or hand it over to someone else.

Rather than send in the Rozzers to arrest those not equiiped with my guile and cunning:)
He (the owner) was there on the day, funny, he was not so quick to react when the place was on fire. I believe there was a heated exchange between HIM and one of my compadre's, of course, I was not there.....:mrgreen:

The grain is down to the 200ISO film, the muted colours- to be fair- could be down to the tesco processing (reasonable quality agfa film bought from Morissons in AberD) but the only post-processing I am guilty of is resizing and tagging:)
 
I've had dealings with the putative owner … won't go into detail here …

The grain is down to the 200ISO film, the muted colours- to be fair- could be down to the tesco processing (reasonable quality agfa film bought from Morissons in AberD) but the only post-processing I am guilty of is resizing and tagging:)
I love Agfa film – tend to use positive (slide) film though – and the muted colours are its signature, compared to the saturated colours you get with Fuji.
 

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