Wolsey Tower

Wolsey Tower.
Leicester.
Spring 09




A shot of all thats left after the destruction that is demolision...





The old Wolsey chimney





A heap of spools




The stairs, they had a really nice banister post



Nice banister post detail.



One of the upstairs rooms




The 'roof'




Trapped by an avalanche of rubble !

Cool stuff, its a shame the spiral staircase to the top got removed.

I know, i really wanted to have a nosey up there too.
Not a place i'd recomend on a hot day tho, it was jam packed with flies !

nice work
the tower looks great on sunny days

What a funny looking twee building!!!
First report? Nice one, I Look forward to more!

Thats a very handsome looking chimney and what is left of a very large factory. We have nothing like that over here in Norfolk and I just love that old fashioned factory landscape, vey Lowryesque!

It is Lowry inspired indeed, just a shame the rest has gone !
ive got a huge thing/passion for victorian industrial brick buildings.
Dont know why but decent and imaginative brickwork really does it for me...

littlelaura said:

It is Lowry inspired indeed, just a shame the rest has gone !
ive got a huge thing/passion for victorian industrial brick buildings.
Dont know why but decent and imaginative brickwork really does it for me...

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I an well into derelict railway stations and tunnels, civil engineering e.t.c.. Nothing like Blue Victorian Engineering brick in a Viaduct or Old Tunnel.

Excellent work!

That's a real shame to the the old Factory all but levelled. As you rightly point-out, all the intricate brickwork detailing that was carefully designed and built, literally brick-by-brick, gone in a few swings of the ol' ball & chain

Thanks for sharing your pics of the latest status on this place. I loved the report from a few months back (think it was Goldie or Mr. Sam's?), which had some lovely views across the roofs, showing the old Factory Worker's Terraced Houses in the background. Such views are now lost forever (apart from on said photos of course!)

Glad you like it, i saw that report too, that was what made me want to go for a look in the first place. Was a good one.
Was saddned to see everything else had gone tho, hope they keep the tower and somehow work it into whatever they're building on the site, its such a lovely thing would be a shame to loose it !

The Tower looks wicked,now its stood on its own.I can't see them taking it down but this is Leicester and the town planners are morons

That tower was full of the stuff from the medical room for some reason, I have some pics somewhere. The staircase was gorgeous, it got pinched I recon...

Good to see they at least kept something of the place...

Would love to have seen the staircase, if it was anything like the banister it must have been lovely.
Shame it got nicked, bloody pikeys.
There wasn't anything in there medically when iwe visited, was just a shell really bar a few chairs and pigeons. Must have all been cleared out, bah.

The medical stuff was up the tower, so you would not have seen it without an epic staircase to climb!

dweeb said:

The medical stuff was up the tower, so you would not have seen it without an epic staircase to climb!

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Darn it !! Would have liked to have seen both !!!

I'd say the trower is still do-able without the stairs... I would not mind getting up there myself. The records were of a fair old vintage.

Would have loved to get up that tower myself when I went there last, it was all the pigeons and the large amount of poo they left behind that put me off!!

Good photos!

good stuff, i still havent actually been in, every time i head down there theres some doggers