Report - Dairy Crest Creamery, Torrington (Torrington Creamery), Devon, England - May 2018

[Landie_Man]

Another backlog from a West Country Road Trip back in late May with Mookster, our American explorer friend and myself. This was our second stop off on our first day on the trip; our first being Tone Mills, a revisit for me so I haven't done a report, but with Tone its always a pleasure seeing it. A wonderful site each and every time.

The three of us embarked on the large two day road trip in my trusty 1988 Volvo 240 and rocked up in Torrington that morning. This site has been derelict for absolutely years, but its in the arse end of nowhere so its taken a while to see it.

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Closed in 1993; Dairy Crest's Creamery sat on a site which had been a creamery since 1874. This particular Art Deco site was built in the 1930's to meet needs, but When the government de-centralised milk collection,the creamery was finally killed off and it closed its doors; a severe blow to the area; with around 200 Job losses.

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[tarkovsky]

That’s a nice building. Enjoyed the report, cheers.

 

[Jack Wilkinson1]

Some good pics there mate. Would love to give it a visit soon.

 

[Cortinalights]

Great photos there, seen shots of this place before but think these are probably the best I've seen, although there's not much inside looks well worth a visit to just to see inside the building itself, yeah must call by next time I'm down that way

 

[Perry_92]

This places still around??

 

[Landie_Man]

I don’t know mate. You’ll have to do a search

 

[Geoker]

This places still around??

I’m quite sure it’s still there, nothing has been reported in the local media to suggest otherwise. Hoping to visit very soon.

 

[Steve197]

It’s still standning