Pine End Works, Lydney June 2014

[mookster]

After Cwm Coke we checked out a couple of possible new places one of which was well sealed and the other appeared to be currently occupied by workers (on a Sunday!) so we sacked them off for another day and started to head home via this factory which I had pinned for some time as something to look at at some point if I was in the area, but I thought it was long gone until I found a post about it on another forum from April this year.

Pine End Works has been in operation for more than 40 years. Occupying a 14-acre site it was built by the government in 1940 to manufacture technical aircraft and marine plywood for wartime requirements. Parts for the De Havilland Mosquito and the Horsa glider (used in large numbers for Operation Overlord, Market Garden etc) were built here. The plant became part of the national network of "shadow factories" designed to carry on the war effort when installations in more vulnerable locations were destroyed by enemy action. To preserve secrecy the new factory was misleadingly designated "Factories Direction Ltd.", a name which persisted long after the end of the war by which time the plant had been taken on by two of the countries largest timber groups, William Mallison and Sons Ltd. and Gliksten Plywood Limited. A later reorganisation resulted in the name being changed to "Mallison-Denny (Lydney) Limited"

From other photos it looks like we missed a nice store room but other than that saw the lot, it's largely stripped, looking like planned demolition was abandoned, but a nice chilled wander. After closure it looked like parts of it were split into separate small units as we found some interesting remains in a few areas that obviously weren't from it's original purpose.

Thanks for looking, more here https://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/sets/72157645021050720/

 

[skeleton key]

Lol all that stacked fencing did make me laugh Mooks and where I like to see it .

Nice shots mate

 

[Lara]

Nice set Mooks

 

[shaddam]

very nice stuff mooks !

 

[Perjury Saint]

Good stuff Mr Mooks!

 

[mookster]

Cheers guys not bad for a derp factory

 

[klempner69]

Guess they forgot to put the fence on the outside!

 

[mookster]

Guess they forgot to put the fence on the outside!

Au contraire, there is a very shiny new-looking Palisade fence topped with razor wire running along the whole of the outside but they made one little oversight during the installation (handy for us explorers!)

 

[Bungal]

good stuff