Hello folks!
This site is quite well known I would say - workers left the site for the last time in 2007. It was opened in 1962 as Ferodo brake components and all was dandy for almost 40 years until it was taken over by Friction Dynamics then things went tits up. It was the scene of one of the longest running industrial disputes ever with the T&GW union that lasted 2 and a half years.
In the 10 years since it closed its been ravaged by storms, fire, general vandalism and corrosion due to the coastal location. So its an understatement to say its in pretty poor shape! Still, that doesn't mean I didn't find it interesting. I was actually walking to my sisters house to pick up my car and happened to be walking past so popped in to look around. I expected to see a complete dead loss, the kind of place its not worth taking the camera out of the bag. But I saw plenty to decide I'd come back with my camera gear.
I decided to do something totally radical that I hadn't done before - do the entire set in Black & White. Here goes.....
There are 3 separate buildings, this one housed the heavy industry, generating the power.
The second building is the admin block
Not so much left in there so onwards to the main building which is VAST! This is probably what most people will see when first entering, although there must be at least 20 other access points!
There is a building inside the building
I'd be interested to know what these big hanging things are/were in the next 2 pics
And this is what held them in place up in the roof
Sometimes when there's no epic stuff its the little things, the traces of what's left that I find fascinating.
At some point this gloopy stuff had leaked and then set rock solid
No security here but I was worried about projectiles of shit from above - a seagull with attitude dropped one a couple of feet away as I took this external
This site is quite well known I would say - workers left the site for the last time in 2007. It was opened in 1962 as Ferodo brake components and all was dandy for almost 40 years until it was taken over by Friction Dynamics then things went tits up. It was the scene of one of the longest running industrial disputes ever with the T&GW union that lasted 2 and a half years.
In the 10 years since it closed its been ravaged by storms, fire, general vandalism and corrosion due to the coastal location. So its an understatement to say its in pretty poor shape! Still, that doesn't mean I didn't find it interesting. I was actually walking to my sisters house to pick up my car and happened to be walking past so popped in to look around. I expected to see a complete dead loss, the kind of place its not worth taking the camera out of the bag. But I saw plenty to decide I'd come back with my camera gear.
I decided to do something totally radical that I hadn't done before - do the entire set in Black & White. Here goes.....
There are 3 separate buildings, this one housed the heavy industry, generating the power.
The second building is the admin block
Not so much left in there so onwards to the main building which is VAST! This is probably what most people will see when first entering, although there must be at least 20 other access points!
There is a building inside the building
I'd be interested to know what these big hanging things are/were in the next 2 pics
And this is what held them in place up in the roof
Sometimes when there's no epic stuff its the little things, the traces of what's left that I find fascinating.
At some point this gloopy stuff had leaked and then set rock solid
No security here but I was worried about projectiles of shit from above - a seagull with attitude dropped one a couple of feet away as I took this external
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No idea what those udders are for either :? .
