This place is a little surprise really, I had written it off as not worth a look after a spate of fires destroyed two of the workshops last year as well as some smaller buildings but it's a really great example of smaller scale British heavy industry, with pretty much all the machinery and tools left from when the company went bust in 2016. Some photos a friend of mine took on a recent visit spurred me on to go as I realised it was a place that was right up my street as I love British industry such as this.
There isn't a great deal of information online about Acorn Shipyard however as mentioned above the company went bust in September 2016 and shortly thereafter two of the large buildings were destroyed by fires. Situated where it is it's sadly been a prime target for local morons but thankfully although the fabric of the buildings have been affected by graffiti etc, the internals are still pretty intact. There were workshops devoted to both woodwork and metalworking, it was quite nice seeing machinery built at the now demolished Wadkin Woodworking Machinery factory in Leicester sitting in there as that's another place I managed to explore a few years back.
The only bad part about this explore was the weather - considering we'd enjoyed weeks and weeks of blazing sun we had to visit it on the one afternoon where it was blowing a gale and raining horizontally - which didn't make shooting the two buildings ravaged by fire that much fun!
Thanks for looking
There isn't a great deal of information online about Acorn Shipyard however as mentioned above the company went bust in September 2016 and shortly thereafter two of the large buildings were destroyed by fires. Situated where it is it's sadly been a prime target for local morons but thankfully although the fabric of the buildings have been affected by graffiti etc, the internals are still pretty intact. There were workshops devoted to both woodwork and metalworking, it was quite nice seeing machinery built at the now demolished Wadkin Woodworking Machinery factory in Leicester sitting in there as that's another place I managed to explore a few years back.
The only bad part about this explore was the weather - considering we'd enjoyed weeks and weeks of blazing sun we had to visit it on the one afternoon where it was blowing a gale and raining horizontally - which didn't make shooting the two buildings ravaged by fire that much fun!
Thanks for looking
