Spiller / Nestle Purina Pet Food Factory
Barrhead, Glasgow - July 2010
This factory used to make pet food (50 million cans per day at it's peak). It was first run by Spillers and then taken over by Nestle / Purina who closed it in 2004.
Today, it lies abandoned, stripped out, fire-damaged in places and open to the elements (and neds).
(I'm sure it's just psychological - but I swear I could smell dog-food even after all those years!)
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This is the main entrance to the plant past the wee security hut.
Inside the offices - a dyslexic vandal has been at work...
Some parts are fire-damaged. At the end of this room is a fire-safe -
Two from inside the canteen now -
The obligatory staircase shot -
Some paperwork - there were loads of it lying about -
Moving out into the warehouses now -
Think this was the main canning area -
Looking closely at this, it seems two customers have sent back wood bark found in their pet food!!
back to the factory -
very dark in places - had to tread carefully there were big holes in the floors -
back outside again to the weighbridge hut -
and inside the weighbridge hut
finally, an unusal building right at the exit called 'office' with a distinctive yellow phone box beside it -
see more here - 47 photos on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsmbm/sets/72157624514915234/with/4798936223/
Barrhead, Glasgow - July 2010
This factory used to make pet food (50 million cans per day at it's peak). It was first run by Spillers and then taken over by Nestle / Purina who closed it in 2004.
Today, it lies abandoned, stripped out, fire-damaged in places and open to the elements (and neds).
(I'm sure it's just psychological - but I swear I could smell dog-food even after all those years!)
- - - - - -
This is the main entrance to the plant past the wee security hut.
Inside the offices - a dyslexic vandal has been at work...
Some parts are fire-damaged. At the end of this room is a fire-safe -
Two from inside the canteen now -
The obligatory staircase shot -
Some paperwork - there were loads of it lying about -
Moving out into the warehouses now -
Think this was the main canning area -
Looking closely at this, it seems two customers have sent back wood bark found in their pet food!!
back to the factory -
very dark in places - had to tread carefully there were big holes in the floors -
back outside again to the weighbridge hut -
and inside the weighbridge hut
finally, an unusal building right at the exit called 'office' with a distinctive yellow phone box beside it -
see more here - 47 photos on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsmbm/sets/72157624514915234/with/4798936223/
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