My first report, feedback is welcome of course.
The Brantham Factories have somewhat of a legendary status in the area, very popular for exploring even as a one off.
The factories were built in 1887 and were abandoned in 2007. The company named "BX Plastics" manufactured, you guessed it, plastics. The factory shut down after the company gained a bad reputation, someone was using a comb using the plastic manufactured in the factory and it burned their house down, although the manufacturing method was changed later on to stop the issue happening again, it was too late for BX Plastics.
The land was going to be used as a railway depot for Greater Anglia but this was cancelled after an inspection of the land revealed that the ground was contaminated from the factory.
Unfortunately, most of the factory has been demolished. It used to extend all the way out, even to the other side of the railway line. The land has been purchased by a housing company and the factories are soon to be demolished sadly. I'll be sad to see it go.
It was a good explore, there's still plenty of machinery in place, which I find very interesting indeed. The below images are only from my phone because I didn't bring my camera with me, foolish I know. I've only been doing urbex for a few months but it was this that started it all
The photos aren't the best, it was my first explore and I wasn't really prepared. Basically I had no idea what I was doing. Any advice/guidance is obviously greatly appreciated. I've done a couple of explores since this one, I took my camera to them so I was able to get much better quality images. I will make a report on them later if I remember.
The Brantham Factories have somewhat of a legendary status in the area, very popular for exploring even as a one off.
The factories were built in 1887 and were abandoned in 2007. The company named "BX Plastics" manufactured, you guessed it, plastics. The factory shut down after the company gained a bad reputation, someone was using a comb using the plastic manufactured in the factory and it burned their house down, although the manufacturing method was changed later on to stop the issue happening again, it was too late for BX Plastics.
The land was going to be used as a railway depot for Greater Anglia but this was cancelled after an inspection of the land revealed that the ground was contaminated from the factory.
Unfortunately, most of the factory has been demolished. It used to extend all the way out, even to the other side of the railway line. The land has been purchased by a housing company and the factories are soon to be demolished sadly. I'll be sad to see it go.
It was a good explore, there's still plenty of machinery in place, which I find very interesting indeed. The below images are only from my phone because I didn't bring my camera with me, foolish I know. I've only been doing urbex for a few months but it was this that started it all
The photos aren't the best, it was my first explore and I wasn't really prepared. Basically I had no idea what I was doing. Any advice/guidance is obviously greatly appreciated. I've done a couple of explores since this one, I took my camera to them so I was able to get much better quality images. I will make a report on them later if I remember.
