Teviot Mill, Scottish Borders

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Boatbird

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I've been very surprised to find little or no urbexing on this site- mainly because of its location beside a busy main road connecting England and Scotland and right near to the town centre. It seems I am one of the few urbexers between Edinburgh and Newcastle!

I've been to this site half a dozen times (this is a compliation of images from 2011-2013) so far and can't wait to go back- theres not much to see, but there is one elusive building containing offices and if the reports I've seen elsewhere are to be believed... maybe something worth looking at- one day! There is also a second building that has possible access to the front portion- but you'll see the rear part of the building and understand my reluctance to climb on in there.

This mill and collection of buildings first appeared on site in 1815. Originally built for hosiery and tweed manufacturing for a local firm, most of the goods produced here were of a lower quality and more for the mass market.

At serious risk of simply falling down due to neglect, the buildings have been damaged by fire, flood, water and the ever present pigeon. It was reported in local press that part of the site had been purchased by a supermarket and another portion by a residential property developer and permission had finally been granted for demolition to start in 2011 ( although this is when I first saw the site!) There is very little left to see in the empty buildings sadly but its a nice local easy splore for me!

One of the splores was down with my daddy :) at_home who appears in true urbex style


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Easily identifiable and right next to the main road

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Office building- the rear of which I am wary of entering (more on this one later!)

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Pigeon Tower

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Yard (plenty of office cubicle walls if you need one!)

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Exterior of one of the buildings had to be covered with scaffolding when locals complained it was raining debris

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The main building has passed through many hands in recent years- most recently as a second hand furniture store and decorating supplies shop. Not much left to see other than agro props, scaffolding and guano.

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Despite appearances, this is on the first floor- the ceiling of the floor above is collapsing slowly

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Probably something to do with the piles and piles of the this.... we didn't dare venture more than a couple of feet inside the room from the stairs as the floor was so soft.

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Pretty uninspiring windows :)

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Blocking access to goodness knows what... there was a few of the obligatory dead pigeons but photos don't come out too well when you're worried about holding your breath/ not disturbing too much/ falling through the floor!

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But I realllllly wanted to see the view from the top!

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Chair!

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Plenty of things underfoot in part of the newer building- wooden toilet cubicles (and wooden toilet seats that were cut outs in wood!), bits of random paper, wiring and this fascinating glimpse of a stained glass window

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Starring at_home. This is the building that appears fine at the front- but has been harvested. The walls bow badly and all my shots of the inside (which came out fuzzy grrr) show holey floors and very very damp/ wobbly bits. The offices at the front appear to be in better condition but alternative routes of entry are not immediately apparent

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There are appears to be a layer of wall missing- along with lintels and chimney liners

I'll be back- and hope to maybe find what was missing!
 
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Trying to think who used to have Teviot Mills can picture the building but not the company. . .. Anyway sending you a pm!
 
Possibly just storing it there for somewhere else ?. Do remember that think its a sainsubury's flattened the other part that stretched down towards the gun range. Passed it during demo number of years back on the way to the borders car rally i think !
 
The property was still the property of the local council for many years- bet they parked something there to make it look like something was being done. Yes, Sainsburys took over the other portion of the site- although this side was reported to have been bought by Aldi/Lidl although they disputed this and rumours that a property developer was to use the site dried up in the financial downturn. Another big firm just down the road have left their site too so theres yet more empty properties nearby.... always sad to see
 
Nice to see something new! They don't make them like that anymore, check out that structure!
Thanks for sharing great pics! :)
 
The property was still the property of the local council for many years- bet they parked something there to make it look like something was being done. Yes, Sainsburys took over the other portion of the site- although this side was reported to have been bought by Aldi/Lidl although they disputed this and rumours that a property developer was to use the site dried up in the financial downturn. Another big firm just down the road have left their site too so theres yet more empty properties nearby.... always sad to see

I now what else is kicking around the area for seeing mate and its quite a bit :)
 
I now what else is kicking around the area for seeing mate and its quite a bit :)

I probably haven't seen half as much as you know about then! I'm trying to get access to a few here in town but not so easy with toddler in tow most of the time! Other half told me about a few that might still be doable further up towards Edinburgh but I need more hours in the day!
 
fantastic pictures, and jeezo never seen so much pigeon poop in one spot as that,
next time i see my dad,I must remember to ask him what he can remember of the mills up in that part of the world as hes from Langholm originally
 
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