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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

arla foods, bamber bridge. jan 09

forgot to post this when i did it, only remembered the other day! so here we go! firstly the externals where done last september when i didnt get in but went back at start of january and got inside! arla foods shut in bamber bridge 4 years ago, as far as i know im the first explorer in there, its got security on site and cameras in and out! so had to take it slow! did most of it but ran out of time! as i expected it was almost bare inside but glad i did it in the end as i did live around the corner from it for a while! and its somewhere i wanted to see!

abit about the company:-Arla Foods is a cooperative based in Århus, Denmark, and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia. Arla was formed as the result of a merger between the Swedish dairy cooperative Arla and the Danish dairy company MD Foods. Arla Foods is owned by approximately 10,600 milk producers in Denmark and Sweden. The name Arla derives from the same word as the English word "early" and is an archaic Swedish term for "early (in the morning). Arla was the name of a local Swedish dairy industry in the end of the 19th century which was one of the founders of modern Arla Foods.

these outside shots where done around the back as security are around the front!

thi one of the switch room was in total darkness, had to reflect the light of a pannel cover on the otherside of the room and it took about 6 go's before i was happy with it!

this is my first pic of the inside that i took, very empty but worth getting in.

this was the only machine left inside the lab!

one of the docking bays

the only spare part left inside the maintenance workshop, a plastic fan.

this door way is great! it leads from one chiller to another, dont have a clue why its that shape but i like it!

there was plenty of holes in walls with cameras on the other side of them so it took some time getting around them but overall i think it was worth it.

Thursday, 22 January 2009

Weston POW camp, jan 09

had a bit of a mini meet here some time in january, its only a small site,but worth the time to have a look around. In WW2, Weston POW camp was a camp for ‘trusted’ prisoners of war. It was later used to house Polish refugees. It is currently scheduled for demolition for the building of a road.

first pic is in one of the blocks if you could call them that! it stil got all original fetures intact.

of one of the buildings, this one was a bit different in the chimney it had a water tank at the top

one of the overgrown buildings done in black and white.

a few arty ones looking through the windows from inside one of the overgrown buildings.

st joes, wigan 31st december

went along on the hope of meeting the caretaker, but after a while we decided he had more sense and stayed at hope! lol it was a cold morning and very foggy, but here are a couple of pics from outside!

looking from the lake to the main entrance, the next 2 are of a fency next to the lake!

Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Bunker drain, Warrington

Went along with Over with a few other sites in mind in the area, but i was glad we did this one first as it was alot warmer in here then it was on the surface! was my first time seeing the Bunker and its massive, you also don't get a feel of how deep you are till half way through when you are 40ft below a manhole in one chamber! its also full of frogs and eel's at the start! here some of my shots anyway!

this was the first part you see, through them windows as they could be called is the river.

Over and that hat!

one of the many seamingly endless pipes!

this was the chamber when you find out how deep you are! this chamber has 3 levels before you get to the manhole

and finaly one of the residents in bunker!

Sunday, 23 November 2008

Green quarter tower crane, manchester. november 08

after finishing off at london road me and over finised an exploring day and went on to this tower crane over by th the M.E.N. arena it was an 81 meter hook to floor and my first tower crane!

its not as easy as you thing going to the top of one of these, i needed 20 rest at the top!

but what a view!

the cab, which was heated, had a kettle and a cracking view of manchester!

London road fire station, Manchester. November 08

after the trip to deva me and over where still in an exploring mood, so we went on to have a go at london road fire station! once we were in it didnt take long before we headed for the tower. been some where i wanted to see for a while, its mainly empty but still got intresting features! and lots of rooms to see!

a bit of history:- London Road Fire Station is a former fire station, police station and coroner's court, in Manchester, England. Designed and built between 1904 - 1906 by Woodhouse, Willoughby & Langham at a cost of £142 000. Until 1974 and the formation of the Greater Manchester Fire Service, it was the headquarters of the Manchester Fire Brigade.Built of red brick and terracotta by Burmantofts it is now a Grade II listed building in the Whitworth Street conservation area. Since 2001 the building has been listed as “at risk” by English Heritage.

was decribing this as some sort of racking earlier, but since found out that it was a victorian laundry drier.

over and me in the tower opposite Manchester Piccadilly!

deva mental asylum, Chesire. November 08

OK its been a bit over done on the forums recently, but after cutting abit off my finger and missing out on going to denbigh asylum i was doing this! :)

went along with over 5050 snowdudejohn and omega, we gained access with directions from chewy off northwest(thanks for those) its only closed in 2005 and is still attached to a working hospital. as we was in there we bumped in to a group of chav's/scrote's who was wandering around, they where as big of losers as you could imagine! when we got up to the hazard room as its called we found them again after losing them that is, and they was kicking a door in we got them to stop but left after that! here are some pics any way!