Bridon Wire Works, Ambergate, May 2008

Myself, Kaputnik, The_Revolution and Ashless recently paid a visit to the former Bridon Wire Works. The history of the place has been well covered by previous reports, so I'll just drop into the pictures.

Inside of the large winding shed


The sunken winding wheels in recessed holes in the floor, plus lots of ferns.


Far end of the winding shed, near the leaking pipe


A selection of gloves


A very small selection of the large quantity of documentation left behind.


The Lab


Lovely glassware


Hydrometer


Random selection of polaroids


The House on the Hill

This place is quite trashed. The basement is sound, but just about everything else is rotten and ready to fall down.

From the front


Side view


Worn out staircase in the internal courtyard


Date of manufacture, or best before date?


Finally, Ashless gets busy with the tealights again

Here's a few of mine, from the visit.....
the incredibly long main building..

some of the plant life in there....

these 2 were taken (from under the boarded up door!) of a room we couldn't get into, annoyingly...


A collection of Ammeters...

one of the rooms in the lab...

finally, my favourite, for some reason....

We were flagging at the end of this visit, as we pulled it in after an all night explore else where, but worth seeing!

Nice work guys,that looks like quite an interesting old place,that electrical room looks particularly good stuff

cool pictures
myself i like the nude phone shot

Always enjoy seeing photos of this site. The house is so quirky...I'm amazed that it hasn't been done up for sale! Excellent pics guys.

Foxylady said:

Always enjoy seeing photos of this site. The house is so quirky...I'm amazed that it hasn't been done up for sale! Excellent pics guys.

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You'd struggle to do that house up now. I think you'd have to pretty much take the whole place down and rebuild it!

it amazed me how big the really cool cellar was, three rooms linked by a long curved tunnel like corridor, many numbered compartments in the rooms, obviously big wine fans. love 'Mr Tealight' Ashless's idea, very spookily, he had just the exact no. of them to put in each space in that room.

Wireworks






Resting in peace in the "House on the Hill" wine cellar

That last one is great, Ashless. what mix of chemicals did you put in that lab jar!!

oooooooooooooooooooooooooh I love these pics. The labs are great aren't they? Loved seeing all those tubes, bottles, and all the paperwork still left in there. Could have spent hours just in the lab area. And really, really love that house. Excellent pics guys, I really need to go back here, and especially see the house. We missed it last time we went.

Cheers,

Sal

we trudged for what seemed like miles up into the woods looking for that house, then gave up and went to the wireworks, and all of a sudden Crashmatt spotted it almost by accident!

Top stuff guys,dont know where you found the energy from though after an all nighter