Report - Unity Mill June 2021-2022

[TalkingMask]

If you’ve ever been the canal in woodley and seen it’s chimney, then you probably know of the mill here. Unity was a spinning mill turned into a chemical works and brewery abandoned in 2003. Some other threads explain it’s history better than me as I can’t find much, so check them out for a history overview

Exterior (pre demolition)

Prior to initial demolition, I only made one visit and got caught and kicked off, only saw a tiny section of the building that I’ll show now

Storage room? There were a lot of switches here, what I presume a shutterand what appears to be lower floors

‘Shutter door’ section at back plus the switches

Office block and storage area from what I presume, however I can’t gather much as most of it was gone when I came back

Exterior second demolition

You can see where the hallway was, plus ‘storage area’ that’s been demolished

Front left of full building, I’m afraid I don’t have many full photos of the front as getting spotted was easy, but there are loads of photos showing the front online

back area plus maybe truck unloading area? It had a maintenance cutout in the floor for trucks likely so I assume it was that

Destroyed building, ironically it was destroyed to stop second floor access, yet that floor collapsed making a ladder easier to use than the stairs

Demolished office block

Interior pre demo

As with most mills, the main building is completely empty so I’ll mainly focus on the additional buildings connected

Large room, most likely had second floor as there are doors and filled indoor ways

Other side of large room

Extremely large open area, I asked my grandad as he works in some old mills and he assumes it was for cargo lifts which makes sense. 4 stories high

Unknown room

Large open space, it looks like that smaller chimney connected to it so maybe engine related? As the next room is very large and has vent fans

large open area, possibly engine room due to the fans and air ducts

A vent duct and fan

Office block, extremely overgrown

Jumping through these windows inside was fun

I don’t know how many photos I’ve used up here so I’ll move onto the next part

 

[TalkingMask]

Part 2

The main building is pretty empty with the exceptions of large holes in the ground on floor 2, and a tiny section of doorways on floor 3

First floor entrance

very eerie, however the amount of switches to pull here was definitely fun. Tripping on those curbs definitely wasn’t though, it’s now full of rubble from when they dumped parts from the walls back when it was more intact

Board room? It’s completely empty except for that thing in the centre, I don’t work with anything like that so I’m afraid I don’t know any terms or what it was

Don’t step Inside. The spiders on top will get you

Toilet entrance

Creepy photo I got

Very empty as you can see, not much to look at really

Nice photo taken by my mate

Second floor, just as empty

Random fire exit for no reason

Other side of the vent fans

Ladies toilets, annoyingly I got no photos of the lads toilets but I’m sure you know what they would look like

4th floor, plus some sunlights

Top of cargo elevator shaft, the staff elevator is annoyingly closed off on the top floor

Top of stairwell

Nice view of Manchester through there

Top of cargo shaft, its certainly fun looking down 4 stories to solid concrete and yes I did climb down to that platform a bit lower

annoyingly I’m likely out of space so I’ll get working on part 3 now

 

[TalkingMask]

This is taking longer than I thought so I’ll try and speed though this

View from top floor

View of Manchester

Random rug on second floor of destroyed building

Second floor of destroyed building

creepy basement 1, climbing over floor jack I think they’re called

Creepy hallway that went nowhere much to my dismay

Creepy symbols

Cargo bay? There’s a large trapdoor over this so I assume so

quite the fill In

There’s nothing else in here besides a few gaspipes and gas outlets which are fun to switch on and off

Cargo bay entrance

Some creepy photos because why not, plus the last one showing the different bays and markings on the ground

Quite the collapse

Some no light photos for the horror effect
Because if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you

enough Nietzsche, more mill

Old fuse box, sorry for low quality photo. Plus is had actual fuses inside which were fun to mess around with

Extremely creepy cargo elevator through some industry flaps, completely flooded and the door can only be partially closed


fun part over, climbing begin

Mill after demolition

I’ll sum the exterior up quick, all that remains is the main mill, cafeteria and outside toilets and cleaning facility (of which I have no photos of minus me incidentally)

Cargo area panels removed, all exterior buildings removed

Office block minus toilet and cafeteria gone

Photo I took on top of toilet

My friend with his bag next to cafe

Inside cafe

Me on the toilet roof after climbing through cafe window
If I can figure out how to post vids I’ll show how I got on top but if not then no problem

yeah that’s probably it. I’ve probably missed a load of photos and stuff but it’s never really interesting. Honestly if you want a fun climb then this place is good but this place is in such a state now I wouldn’t recommend it, plus it’ll likely get further demolished soon as when we were on site there were still a lot of diggers and other CAT machines (balaclava reasoning), so yeah, have a good day

 

[Calamity Jane]

Nicely covered. I'm always drawn to chimneys, commercial, industrial or domestic. Nice report. Nature has definitely got the better of this place