Ice Cream Factory - Plymouth

Ice Cream Factory - Plymouth - September 2008

cracking find mate.

i'm going back again, thats for sure.

i'll upload my pics once photobucket has sorted it self out.

yeah I've not finished uploading yet....... guess when photofuckits back I cen resume !

I'm glad it turned out to be more exciting than I thought, I had expected it to just be an empty warehouse

yeah mate, that goes double for me too, what a time for photobucket to choose eh? lol
nice to meet you all at last, look forward to the next one...

A few from me...

That place was cool. Sorry to see all the sad old vans just lying around. Glad I didn't taste any of the ice cream flavourings though!!!

whats an ice cream place, without an ice cream van.....

I can't wait til I get my camera now! This place was great. Scotty was overly amused by popping the rotten solero's on the floor so they shot a wad out!

lycos would do any thing for a pic

Great find! :err: What the hell was an inflatable doing in there! Did they expect to have to row their way out of a flood of ice cream I wonder! :laugh:

Great pictures. How long ago was the fire ?

UW

Wow what a place, I'll be in Plymouth on Tuesday morning, I'd love a look at this place....

Awesome report peeps!!!

freebird said:

Great find! :err: What the hell was an inflatable doing in there! Did they expect to have to row their way out of a flood of ice cream I wonder! :laugh:

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No idea. There was a life raft there too! The inflatable was cool though. It was a Jet boat - basically a jet ski with an inflatable sewn around it. I was so excited!

There was all sorts of stuff laying around, I cant get my head around it. With scrap value on cars around £90 each, there is atleast £800 in cars & vans on site, left rotting........

There is enough paperwork on site to make 2 million copies of 2009 yellow pages.....

Enough stainless steel to make 39 Delorians

Its as if it closed for a holiday, and didnt open up again, but got trashed to f**k in the mean time.


as for the fire........ details off the fire service website:

Incident: Fire in disused factory
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2008
Time: 16:45
Location: The old ice cream factory, Plymouth
Area: West Devon
County: Devon



Two fire engines from Camels Head attended the report of smoke issuing from a disused ice cream factory. On arrival, crews forced access to the property, found it well alight and requested another two fire engines and an aerial ladder platform. Two fire engines from Crownhill and Greenbank also attended, together with the aerial ladder platform from Crownhill.

17:18 hrs The fire has spread to the ground floor and roof space and crews are using four breathing apparatus sets, two hose reel jets, one main jet and the hydraulic platform to tackle the fire.

18:10 hrs Crews are turning over and damping down. Operations have been scaled down and ground floor and roof space have been damaged by fire.

What an interesting find. Some wacky looking equipment still in place too!
I remember those old Bedford Ice Cream vans -and back when the summers used to seem to last forever, the Ice Cream man would ring a bell in the evenings (instead of the usual tunes). Me Olds said he used a bell so it wouldn't wake up the children?!!

Thanks for sharing,

Lb:jimlad:

i forgot this one.

What a brilliant trip! And credit to the fantastic photographers who managed to catch some amazing photos!

I was amazed at the vast amount of equipment still present, especially the ice cream vans, all of which had everything that was removeable taken - clearly someone has made alot on ebay as the only parts remaining were destroyed, every bit of glass was smashed so we had to be carefull. The fire had clearly taken place in the out building and how the sports car did not go up in flames is beyond me as all around it had been torched.

There was so much stuff here it is unbelieveable, and it has all been turned over as things like till units and chairs were now outside in the main compound (previously the loading bay)

As you walk in the main doors, to the left and right are four huge walk in freezers. One was full of rotten cornettos, christ knows what was in the others, i was too affraid to look... the two rooms to the right were totally trashed and the main area not only had the original stainless steel vats but also a life raft and speed boat along with many other random items that didnt quite seem to fit in.

It was incredibly dark in there and the photos are amazing considering when we first walked in we couldn't see a thing, imagine our suprise when the first torch was shone around to light up all the equitment.

There was a long corridor that ran the length of the buidling but none of us liked the look of the huge cobwebs... We then made our way through to the offices and i was amazed at the amount of paperwork, obviously a very over compliant office who keep all paperwork for the minimum of 6 years!

The filing cabinets were still full, and the volume of paperwork was unreal, one pile was the width of the corridor and at least up to my knees... The owner of the business clearly had an import business on the side bringing in Jap cars but it looks as though he went bankrupt. We couldnt get into most of the offices as there was too much rubbish spread over the floor, fridges had been pushed over and the paperwork was wet and slippery.

There were pictures of a boat - clearly his pride and joy - on the water looking beautiful but that boat is now sat dying in the coartyard.

Ill get a couple of pictures up later...

Thanks guys for a brilliant trip and it was great to meet you!

Mrs Burt

Great explore, and great photos. There's a lot of variety to see in there.

I can't believe the 300zx has been left there!