Les Grands Moulins de Paris, Lille May '12

[mookster]

First site on mine and Flubbera's European trip.....

"Les Grands Moulins de Paris" in Lille was a flour-mill, built in 1920 and closed in 1989. "Les Grands Moulins de Paris" is still spread all over France, but also in Belgium, Italy, Sweden and Libanon. Their activities follow the way of corn: from cultivation till finished products.

Turned out to be a fairly busy one this, we bumped into a group of three other photographers, about eight Airsofters and then a couple of kids turned up who started smashing something up and making a lot of noise from somewhere on site. Still an awesome building though, right up there with the top few most dangerous places I've ever been.

One half was composed almost entirely of wooden floors and is properly fucked, you can only make it up a few flights of stairs before the floors become truly impassable

The other half is mostly concrete however

More here http://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/sets/72157629712848662

Thanks for looking, there's much more to come from our trip in the next few days when I finish sorting out 1200 photos....

 

[UEP-Wales]

Great shots there! Love the stair shot

 

[flyboys90]

Such a huge place totally gutted!! great photos.

 

[tank2020]

What is it about stair shots, great pics

 

[UrbanX]

Epic! Everything I love about derelict spaces! Looks awesome. Now where's my Eurostar ticket?

 

[TeeJF]

Nice! I had a pin for this place but thought it was a train station!

 

[kellisurbex]

great shots

 

[godzilla73]

Nice stuff man. That'd be the French LEAVING STUFF WHERE IT IS and not poncing about with it. (Ooops - I may have repeated that with regard to other French sites on this forum)
Godzy