Explored with Yorrick & King Mongoose.
Big thanks to Yorrick for the heads up on this one. This site is huge, and spent a good few hours mooching around. Getting a bit trashed now, and the site has planning applications in motion, one of the buildings has since been demolished, but the main block is still standing, so get there quick if interested. One of the buildings had asbestos warnings, so wasn’t going to venture into the tented off areas. Several interesting industrial areas, but most of the machinery has been stripped out now, but not all.
The history iin a nutshell, it housed around 300 employees and was built for jet engine production, and nuclear power plant components (even found a drawing for Sellafield.) Can’t find out when it closed, but it dates back at least to the 40s.
Interesting room with big 'pits'
some sort of milling machine
loading bay
Building 2
Big thanks to Yorrick for the heads up on this one. This site is huge, and spent a good few hours mooching around. Getting a bit trashed now, and the site has planning applications in motion, one of the buildings has since been demolished, but the main block is still standing, so get there quick if interested. One of the buildings had asbestos warnings, so wasn’t going to venture into the tented off areas. Several interesting industrial areas, but most of the machinery has been stripped out now, but not all.
The history iin a nutshell, it housed around 300 employees and was built for jet engine production, and nuclear power plant components (even found a drawing for Sellafield.) Can’t find out when it closed, but it dates back at least to the 40s.
Interesting room with big 'pits'
some sort of milling machine
loading bay
Building 2