So onto our next site, the Leicester Location A was a fail, so onto the next one we went too, the relatively undamaged tool workshop.
John Wadkin founded Wadkins alongside his brother in law Mr W Jarvis in 1897. The company was formed after an idea to invent a machine that would be so versatile...
The other part of my end of year jaunt with Landie and a non member.
After a fail at another site close by we got lucky and received word from MD that this place was doable so we hot footed it here against the failing afternoon light - the lack of light eventually winning out so we called it a...
Visited with a fellow moocher back in August and only had a couple of hours before losing the light so only covered a small part of this huge site. Didn't manage to get on the roof (I wanted to get some city sunset shots) as we stumbled across the two or three Eastern European squatters who have...
I have seen this building so many times when passing through Leicester but it wasnt until yesterday and several other fails that we gave it a go.
A total fail on my behalf for not getting any externals-my bad.
It seems it was once a manufacturer of textile items for C&A, Boots and other...
Just found these photo's on my lappy
These photo's are from a second visit to the Military Training Centre with Shadz an Jesus, not many to show.
Uploaded these to my PB, So heres the link to check out the rest:) http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i18/Zoot337/Urbex/?start=0
Again visted with Thurisaz(his camera ran out of batteries within seconds of switching it on *giggles*) & Shadow
8-)
The rest can be seen here... http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i18/Zoot337/Urbex/?start=0