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jon_nic

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Wolsey factory on FIRE! Leicester, 5th june

I Decided to cycle past wolsey this everning to see the demolition progress and noticed some smoke not far from the tower. I Got a bit closer and a portacabin had been set alight and a big pile of wood was ablaze. There was also a pile of 10 calor gas canisters piled about a meter away from the fire and some more on the other side of a wall. Looks like some kids had tried to prepare a pyrotechnic display!
So I called the fire brigade and they promptly came within 3 mins, by then though the fire was quite bad so it looks like the fire wasnt started long before I got there.
one fire engine broke in to the gates of the waterside center and filled up from the canal water and pumped water to the fire

here are the pics
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not much left of the place now.
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fookin kids:(

at least it wasnt the tower id be gutted to see that on fire
 
Huh I thought I had seen the last of the fires at that place! Looks like the chavs are still finding things to burn. You can see the damage to the gates of the waterside centre too, caused by a car being torched there :no:
 
yea, the police did turn up but there was nothing to see and i didnt see any one.

although a few minutes before I went to wolsey I saw two chavs and one with his hands down his pants walking along the canal!
 
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It is more likely to be people my age! Im 16 and enjoy Urbexing, but the teenagers age group has been given a bad reputaion. Not all of us are vandals and arsonists!
 
Arse!! I saw the calor gas bottles as well when I did an explore recently.

There was lots of evidence of fires having been started in the building with lots of graffiti as well.

I did find some stairs in the area that had lots of graffiti, but I was a bit hesitant in going up, given the condition of the building. There was some evidence of occupation - razor blades, newspapers etc so I did wonder what was going on.
 
:( something else that has been arsoned. Where on earth are the parents when their kids are running riot and destroying things? prob like the ones in my town, they don't care unless they aren't in the house.

Corporal and capital punishment should be brought back. And the parents of these dam kids fined or locked up. Then maybe the world wouldn't be so bad. grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

I'm so glad the tower hasn't been burn't.

Cheers,

:) Sal
 
saffron lane velodrome

i think most of the leicester lot seen the smoke last night about 6.30

it was the velodrome:mad:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZ4Wbtci3k[/ame]

not my video btw
 
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! sounds dodgy, two places in the same city both arsoned within a few days of each other. Are there any developers who are wanting both the sites? that seems to be the way things are going at the moment. I know what i'd do to the arsonists if i caught them. grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

Cheers matt,

:( Sal
 
"DAM KIDS" crap i live a good five six miles away from there and i could see the smoke and i live in a highly built up area.
 

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