British United Shoe Machinery Company, Leicester

These photos are from a visit earlier this year. I visited a number of times with different people. Its a large site and a lot is still used but we were able to get in a few of the smaller buildings that are abandoned. Most of the machinery has been removed and its fairly bare inside the buildings, but its still an interesting place. Some of the buildings have very faded camouflage from WW2 remaining and apparently they used to work on spitfire engine parts there during that time.




















View over some of the site


Wolsey Factory


Group pic, im in the centre

Looks good, I like the can of Otis Lubricants! It would be great to see some more shots. Maybe from a daytime visit?

Reaperman said:

Looks good, I like the can of Otis Lubricants! It would be great to see some more shots. Maybe from a daytime visit?

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Yeah i have some daytime shots on a disk somewhere, i will have to find them.
No doubt i will be making another visit sometime as well.

King Al said:

I would love to know what has rusted so badly to make the drip marks in pic 4, I love a bit of rust me

good stuff

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the only thing i could think of is that the rust streaks are from the metal in the concrete ceilings.

Looks a huge site, like the pics. Nice to see the 1961 newspaper clipping. Looking forward to seeing more pics if you go again in the daytime. If you do go there again, can you pm me and ill tag along if thats ok? Leicester isn't too far away from me.

Cheers,

Sal

smileysal said:

If you do go there again, can you pm me and ill tag along if thats ok? Leicester isn't too far away from me.

Cheers,

Sal

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Sure Sal. Me and a mate were out exploring yesterday and were gonna visit this place but never got round to it in the end. We might make a visit next weekend if nothing else crops up, pm will be sent

Goldie87 said:

the only thing i could think of is that the rust streaks are from the metal in the concrete ceilings.

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Hmmm I am no rocket scientist but that doesn't sound good

King Al said:

Hmmm I am no rocket scientist but that doesn't sound good

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Nope doesn't sound good. Not as bad as some places i've seen that have water damaged concrete floors though. Floors that slope all over the place and cracks everywhere, so the one in the pic wouldn't worry me much right now lol

Nice pics & report there Golds

Nice to the the mix of buildings from various dates of construction. As requested before, PLEASE can we see some daytime pics aswell?
Did you get to have a butchers inside the Wolsey buildings?
Ta for sharing matey!

Lb

Lightbuoy said:

Nice pics & report there Golds

Nice to the the mix of buildings from various dates of construction. As requested before, PLEASE can we see some daytime pics aswell?
Did you get to have a butchers inside the Wolsey buildings?
Ta for sharing matey!

Lb

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Yes i have been in wolsey a number of times
More pics of united shoe coming soon!

hope you dont mind me adding to the reports Goldie and afraid no daytime shots as such, this was my first propper urban explore


this is one of the main un-used buildings


the Wolsey tower in a puddle


and a random gauge

Paid a visit here tonight as it happens. The building shown in Mr Sam's photo has now been secured

Right at last ive sorted out a few more pics!


This is the biggest building we explored


A shot of one of the factory floors


Up on the roof, all the buildings in view once belonged to the same company


A little panoramic pic of the smallest part of the site


Workshop with interesting roof girders


Some machinery

Didn't realise how huge the site is! Love those roof girders. Nice one!

Looks like a very interesting location!

Nice work Goldie looks a good explore.

Simon-G

Where abouts in Leicester is that? Looks good.

Kezza said:

Where abouts in Leicester is that? Looks good.

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Not far from the belgrave flyover.