Bailey Mill, Saddleworth - May 2015

I'd visited Bailey Mill, a few years go and it was one of my first explores.

In the area with Tbolt and we couldn't not pop in, given our first explore of the day in the area was a little bit rubbish to be very honest.

The roof seems to have been replaced in parts with metal sheeting, which was as well as the heavens opened with some of Lancashire's finest Pennine pissy monsoon type rain.

 

The old place seems to be standing up well indeed all things considered, the cellar has been cleared of its monster machines of a bygone age and we strolled thru up to the upper levels with our progress unimpeded.







Enough of the windows I think.....









More windows, sorry.

 

 

 

It's hard to beat good Lancashire millage, get it whilst you can - the recession is apparently over and these old boys will no doubt start being bulldozed at a faster rate than of late.

Still an excellent 8/10 for me.

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Saddleworth Yarn Dyers, Delph - May 2015

Bit of a last minute decision to visit this one, visited with Tbolt who had already had an early morning explore, against my fail.

A few of the gang had previously popped in over the last few weeks,  so we headed for the Lancashire hills to what we had been missing and so on with our visit to Saddleworth Yarn Dyers which closed about 2000.

History is a bit thin on the ground on this little place, so on with some pics.















A tad disappointed, we decided to scoot up the road....

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Revisit to Hartford Mill, Oldham - May 2015

With further promises of imminent demolition, Judderman and myself decided to have one last look at Hartford Mill, a monster of mills that is a local landmark or blot on the landscape depending on how you view it.

Standing empty for years, I last popped into this shell of a Grade II listed building back in March 2014.

I had gone for this view, but sadly the grey sky let us down sadly.



Time for a new mooch in the final days (saying that, the threat of demolition has been hanging over the place for years).





So we pottered in, as you do.





 









 

 

Not much to say really,  other than goodbye Hartford ?

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Rock Nook Mill - June 2014

A short drive up to the Pennine Moors, meeting up with my good friends The Judderman and the one  only known as ZerO81.

This empty mill sits on the side of the Leeds Liverpool Canal, rather a nice spot with the barges going up and down in the locks - don't let this lovely spot fool you, the local youths are feral wee beasties who like nothing better than scuttling through the ventilation ducts.

 


What we have here is nothing special, which is kind of what makes it a little cool....

A deceptively dangerous looking entrance masks a 5 floor mill, thrashed in parts with no sodden "you may die" floors, plenty of peeling paint and enough little bits to waste a few hours in relative safety compared to most death trap Lancashire satanic mills.









I could post loads of shots from this place,but hey get off your arse and go yourself.

 





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6/10

Reins Mill - Huddersfield - November 2013

Another quick hop over the Lancashire border into sunny Yorkshire, with the first frost of the Autumn melting in the overly bright morning sunshine.

Meeting up with Zer081 and another pleasant chap FocusOnScot (who shoots with film).

Being part of a larger active mill, the empty section we visited had been previously vacated in 2003 by Holme Valley Paterns Limited and a lower section vacated in about 2009 by an MOT station.

A rather neat and tidy place, mostly watertight and enough little bits to hold your interest with a nice layer of dust, cobwebs and pigeon poo.













 

 

 













We left as we found it and bid the place farewell, as it sits waiting to become another bloody Morrisons.



Reins Mill - does what it says in the tin, Yorkshire Millage you just can't get enough of it.