La Porte Fullers Earthworks, Redhill July 2018

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Ahhhhh Fullers Earth I hear you cry. One of the longstanding industrial urbex dinosaurs of the UK that has been sitting in limbo for donkeys years and is still somehow clinging on, just.

Fullers Earth was the third location I ever explored on my first ever weekend of exploring nearly a decade ago - behind Hellingly Asylum and R.J. Grimes in Coulsdon. I visited it a handful of times between 2009 and 2011, the memory that will forever stick with me is visiting it in the pouring rain in the summer of 2010 and walking into the Redhill McDonald's with three inches of crap caked on the soles of my boots and mud all the way up my legs. During the latter half of 2010 the site began to be heavily targeted by graffiti artists (as it still is to this day) and it was then that the downward slide really began. Over the years since my last visit the weighbridge building, old slateless laboratory and stores/maintenance buildings have all been demolished, the larger admin/modern laboratory building was gutted in a huge fire, the giant dryers have had their metal casings almost totally removed, the warehouse half of the main factory had almost all of the roofing removed, nearly every way to the upper levels was cut off and a hoarding fence has sprung up around most of it.

So you could say it's changed rather a lot since my first visits. However I have always found it a rather photogenic rusting hulk and so as I was in the area at the weekend I thought what the hell, one last visit for old times sake. It was nice to say a proper goodbye to it, and I must say I don't think I've ever seen it so dry in there as even in the height of summer it used to still be a bit sticky and squelchy in places, dry as a bone at the moment and I came out without a speck of dust on me.

There is some fantastic graffiti in there now including a good number of pieces by Sterling and Gary Stranger which I was pleased to shoot.

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On a slightly sad note this explore is the last one I will shoot with my utterly indestructible tank of a camera that is my 550D, it's performed so much more than Canon possibly ever imagined in seven years of being chucked around dusty dirty derelict buildings and out in all weathers banger racing. It's the best thing I have ever owned but it's getting so very tired now it's finally time to say onwards and upwards.

Thanks for looking :)
 
RIP camera. I'm expecting mine to die of mesothelioma at any time.

Oh its still going just more and more creaky haha. I'll be keeping it as my backup just in case but I can't wait to get my hands on something new.
 
Nice One Mook, you're right about the graffiti talented folk and then the shots of the indoor garden, loved it.
My 550 is going to live for ever, same age as yours and Krela's and not a mark on it, mainly because I never carry it when out nosing, Its problematic enough getting myself around without lugging a shit load equipment.
 

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