Millway Dairy, Harby, Leicestershire, September 2015

Back to UK explores now. This place is looking a bit sorry. Abandoned, then subject to a serious fire, it is now in the throes of being demolished. It’s in a bit of a sorry state. The Millway Foods Dairy was built relatively recently in 1987, close to the Grantham Canal, in the Leicestershire village of Harby, where they produced Stilton. Dairy Crest then acquired Millway Foods in March 1999 and Millway Dairy Crest Ltd was formed. However, Dairy Crest moved all production from Harby to the Hartington Creamery in the Peak District in 2002 and the dairy closed. At the time of closure Dairy Crest took out an injunction forbidding any other company using the site for cheese production and the site remained empty since. A large fire was discovered during the early hours of Saturday May 5th in 2012 and the site has awaited demolition since.

Here’s the photos. Nothing special to be honest but at least it is an up-date on a site that has been covered on here from time-to-time. And not the greatest set of pictures I’ve taken given I skipped out of going to far in due to the demo being in progress.

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Thanks for looking!

At least you got there before the bulldozers. Nicely recorded and a good bit of history.

great set there Hughie

Nice work Hughie. Someone told me this had already gone.
I've visited a few times, the corridor was quite atmospheric. The place was quite dangerous after the fire.
I last visited around December, and was surprised that 2 enormous drum shaped machines had vanished; without any indication of how they had been removed from site. The entrance was blocked with two large concrete barriers which didn't look as though they had been moved

Nicely Done Hughie, Thanks