A fine mill explore indeed, before it got emptied out/trashed and tagged no less. Demolition of it began earlier this year I am led to believe.
A small snippet of history as it was a pretty well known place -
This was a fun one, we had a vague idea of the way in but it took us a little bit of lateral (read vertical) thinking to figure it out. Once we'd slipped and slided our way in we were confronted by the next puzzle - how to get to the various floors. Only one staircase was accessible from the area we came into the building, and all the doors to each floor were sealed shut apart from the top floor. So up to the top we went and luckily we found another staircase which thankfully allowed us access to the other floors. Once we'd finished exploring the main bulk we realised we were missing something though - the rooms full of dismantled mill machinery! Much more head scratching followed as we weren't told of the route to gain access to that part of the building because everything leading to it appeared sealed or in use - we had assumed it'd be obvious once inside. After poking around on the floor below where we thought it was I spotted a dark corridor that seemed oddly out of place compared to every other floor. It was filled with dismantled air extraction ducting and after very noisily clambering over all of it I made it to the end and spotted a ladder heading up into the ceiling, with an open trapdoor. I climbed the ladder and poked my head into the room and bingo! I was confronted with a sea of beautiful dismantled mill machinery. Beckoning over to @Landie_Man to join me we quickly assembled ourselves in the room and got down to the business of shooting as normal. My attention however was soon drawn to various noises that weren't being made by us, instead they were coming from the adjoining room which only had a red sliding door separating us from them - we assumed that there was some sort of business in the room next door so decided to keep it fairly quiet from then on as we didn't want to see whether the door was locked or not.
Luckily nothing happened and we stayed under the radar, and made it out without a hitch into the glorious spring sunshine.
Thanks for looking
A small snippet of history as it was a pretty well known place -
This was a fun one, we had a vague idea of the way in but it took us a little bit of lateral (read vertical) thinking to figure it out. Once we'd slipped and slided our way in we were confronted by the next puzzle - how to get to the various floors. Only one staircase was accessible from the area we came into the building, and all the doors to each floor were sealed shut apart from the top floor. So up to the top we went and luckily we found another staircase which thankfully allowed us access to the other floors. Once we'd finished exploring the main bulk we realised we were missing something though - the rooms full of dismantled mill machinery! Much more head scratching followed as we weren't told of the route to gain access to that part of the building because everything leading to it appeared sealed or in use - we had assumed it'd be obvious once inside. After poking around on the floor below where we thought it was I spotted a dark corridor that seemed oddly out of place compared to every other floor. It was filled with dismantled air extraction ducting and after very noisily clambering over all of it I made it to the end and spotted a ladder heading up into the ceiling, with an open trapdoor. I climbed the ladder and poked my head into the room and bingo! I was confronted with a sea of beautiful dismantled mill machinery. Beckoning over to @Landie_Man to join me we quickly assembled ourselves in the room and got down to the business of shooting as normal. My attention however was soon drawn to various noises that weren't being made by us, instead they were coming from the adjoining room which only had a red sliding door separating us from them - we assumed that there was some sort of business in the room next door so decided to keep it fairly quiet from then on as we didn't want to see whether the door was locked or not.
Luckily nothing happened and we stayed under the radar, and made it out without a hitch into the glorious spring sunshine.
Thanks for looking
