There were four different types of munitions factory:
Engineering factories producing the metal casings for bombs and shells or, in some instances, producing parts, rifles, guns and tanks.
Small-arms factories producing the bullet casings. (These factories were often existing engineering...
ROF Featherstone is one of those sites that I had been meaning to visit for ages but always found something else to occupy myself with, but after the spanner in the works yesterday of being told that the main target of todays trip was sealed and alarmed we decided to make the 'back-up' site the...
Decided to head up to Staffordshire on a sunny weekend morning with my usual mooching partner. Set off mid morning and after satnav tried several times to send us down the M6 toll road we arrived in Featherstone, spotted a likely parking spot and strolled in. We paid the price of setting off...
The site is now home to sheep, lots and lots of sheep
I have a strong dislike for farm animals unless they are fried and between slices of bread
The only good sheep
For those who don't like street art look away now.
Not much info to be found on tinterwebs during my 5 seconds of reserching.
The site is pretty sizeable and bigger still before bits were demo'd and a big
prison built right next door (think the land it's on also used to be part of the...
CS, RD and Hood_Mad had been the week before and I'd been badgering Hood all week to go and he finally succumbed. On this explore was Hood_mad, Bone_mad and myself.
We first went to see 8X7, which is a fantastic experience, we followed the tunnel, past some spectacular collapses (deliberate???)...