Crane Foundry (wolverhampton) LTD
this is another place i found whilst on manouvers sunday afternoon, had a poke around at the time but no camera on me so revisited tuesday...
over the bridge and looking to the left and straight on from the outside in..
my 1st thought on looking to the right was that it was a dead part of this site at the other side of the viaduct, i do think that it probably was at some point still...
inside, the towpath is the other side of this wall...
the colours of this caught my eye and i wanted to see how the camera reproduced it so took this with the intention of cropping but i hadn't realised at the time that some of it was caught reflected in the water (unintentionally) so left as is..
this building was bricked up and locked down tighter than a nuns chuff....
but strangely this room to the right was exposed (but all still bricked up inside)...
inside this room the amount of paperwork, invoices and computer print outs was staggering this is just a small sample...
including some sort of records of financial transactions...
various arches had been utilised as buidings, reminding me of Phil and Grants 'the arches' in eastenders..
there was also other buildings beyond some of the others...
this is the entrance to the bigger building....in the doorway to the right and behind this wall there is a staircase leading up..
now i'm no homaphobe and not easily spooked but this place was quite obviously used as a meeting and shag place by members of the local homosexual community (its historically a very seedy side of town, prostitution etc- i wonder how many of the residents of the new cornhill development are aware of this??
) inside it feels very malevolent and foreboding...i ventured upstairs to the boudoir...it was dark, smelly and vile quite frankly (how anyone could find it even remotely romantic is beyond me!) it was too dark for any decent pics and wasn't happy with how the flash ones i took turned out 
the feelings i got whilst in there weren't helped by the homoerotic graffiti on the wall to my right in this pic which was, frankly, quite disturbing...i did take some pics but they didn't come out particuarly well and weren't very readable, which in hindsight is prob no bad thing..this is looking out of the doorway...
and this one i took for no apparent reason on my way out...
to finish up i spent a good hour and a half in what was a fairly small site and there's prob still more to see especially beyond the arches, very easy and relaxed explore i'd thoroughly reccomend it to anyone wanting to have a go at exploring but i wouldn't venture in there much later than early evening, especially if alone as i was!!
this is another place i found whilst on manouvers sunday afternoon, had a poke around at the time but no camera on me so revisited tuesday...
over the bridge and looking to the left and straight on from the outside in..
my 1st thought on looking to the right was that it was a dead part of this site at the other side of the viaduct, i do think that it probably was at some point still...
inside, the towpath is the other side of this wall...
the colours of this caught my eye and i wanted to see how the camera reproduced it so took this with the intention of cropping but i hadn't realised at the time that some of it was caught reflected in the water (unintentionally) so left as is..
this building was bricked up and locked down tighter than a nuns chuff....
but strangely this room to the right was exposed (but all still bricked up inside)...
inside this room the amount of paperwork, invoices and computer print outs was staggering this is just a small sample...
including some sort of records of financial transactions...
various arches had been utilised as buidings, reminding me of Phil and Grants 'the arches' in eastenders..
there was also other buildings beyond some of the others...
this is the entrance to the bigger building....in the doorway to the right and behind this wall there is a staircase leading up..
now i'm no homaphobe and not easily spooked but this place was quite obviously used as a meeting and shag place by members of the local homosexual community (its historically a very seedy side of town, prostitution etc- i wonder how many of the residents of the new cornhill development are aware of this??
) inside it feels very malevolent and foreboding...i ventured upstairs to the boudoir...it was dark, smelly and vile quite frankly (how anyone could find it even remotely romantic is beyond me!) it was too dark for any decent pics and wasn't happy with how the flash ones i took turned out the feelings i got whilst in there weren't helped by the homoerotic graffiti on the wall to my right in this pic which was, frankly, quite disturbing...i did take some pics but they didn't come out particuarly well and weren't very readable, which in hindsight is prob no bad thing..this is looking out of the doorway...
and this one i took for no apparent reason on my way out...
to finish up i spent a good hour and a half in what was a fairly small site and there's prob still more to see especially beyond the arches, very easy and relaxed explore i'd thoroughly reccomend it to anyone wanting to have a go at exploring but i wouldn't venture in there much later than early evening, especially if alone as i was!!
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