John Ellis & Sons / Watson Petroleum - Loughborough

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Darksider

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Im struggling to find exactly how long this site has been derelict for, but it is pretty much as long as I can remember. Originally It belonged to John Ellis & sons who were a lime /cement manufacturer & distributor in the 19th century. Later in its life it was used by Watson Petroleum wholesale petrol & gas oil supplier that are still trading.


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Front - used by Lafarge occasionally to park up vehicles, across the road from their site.


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A couple of googled images relating to the old company.


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Round the back of the office part of the building


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Welcome!


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You tell me...


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By the main entrance


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The enquiries office were not very forthcoming....


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Main corridor


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The ubiquitous circuit board shot


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Reception


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Watson Petroleum tidied up well before they left...


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Australia! looks nice


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Nice solid stone staircase for once


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Upstairs rooms


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Time had been taken to loot most of the copper & cabling though.


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Any guesses?


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The main workshop (?) area


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The foot prints aren't mine, so it has seen other visitors very recently.


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There was surprisingly little tagging in there.


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The last two are in the workshop area again, a good section of the roof has collapsed & so has
the suspended ceiling. Im still surprised that there weren't any pigeons in there!

Thanks for looking.
 

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