Fullers Earth Works, Redhill, Surrey, August 2010

This had been on the 'to do' list for a while and we finally got round to exploring it. A decent sized sight with some lovely towering machinery.

Apparently, the plant closed in 1997. Prior to this it had been purchased by La Porte Industries and had produced high quality earth and cat litter. Rumour has it that the unusual site and surrounding landscape actually served as an alien landscape for some Dr Who episodes in the 70s.

A few normal shots and some HDR ones too.

Explored with Flame and a good head for heights.


External shot of the plant:





What we found to be a social club for the plant:





Entrance to the plant room:





Not much going on this week:





Inside the main plant room, the scale apparent by how it dwarfed us:





Area just off the main plant room:





Conveyor belt:





Controls:





Chemical bottle in one of the smaller rooms:





Produce left behind:





Looking down; a seriously long drop:





Shot from the roof:





What we guessed were two types of earth handled at the plant:





Machinery inside the plant; very impressive:





Warehouse area:





Cheers as always for your interest!

Vertex

Tis a great site this, one of the first places I explored, good pics too

Yeah it's a good site. it's also nice to not come out knee deep in bird dung from somewhere like this.

The warehouse area is totally out of some Guy Ritchie hostage torture scene.