Made the visit here on my own whilst heading up to Scotland for the week. I liked the look of this place and the old workshop. Entry was nice and easy and spent a few hours wandering about. The lower film set areas were not of much interest to me, the cells were ok. But the pitch black area what housed all the bright gold set was just garish and looked awful. I did not bother spending the time to light paint it for ages and took one photo. I made my first exploring error in here, trying to nosey at something on the top floor below the attic bit. I went to near a bit of green floor and next thing I am going through it. Luckily my bum landed on a solid bit and joists in the ways. I quickly scrambled up and away listening to all the debris crashing below. A real rookie moment and one that I ain’t going to lie, shook me up for a bit. But i did not let it spoil the explore.
The mill was built in 1869 by Joseph Craven as a replacement for the nearby Strong Close mill. It was the largest textile mill in Yorkshire employing around 2000 people.The mill continued in use till around 2004. Parts of the mill had been converted for other uses. The mill that I had visited had been used as a film set for various TV programmes like the Limehouse Golem, Peaky Blinders and Downton Abbey. It suffered a fire in 2011 and the then in March of this year a huge fire ravaged the building. Over a hundred firefighters attended from 20 stations to bring the fire under control. Five youths were later arrested on suspicion of arson. It was feared that the shell would have to be demolished. But now Historic England were hoping to bring the building back to use with Bradford city council. I am not sure if this is still going ahead.
Starting up top in the attic area.
The building has added safety features for when it was used as a film set, but retains original features too.
Old posters for a film set in a pitch black area.
The lovely workshop.
And finally coming out again.
The mill was built in 1869 by Joseph Craven as a replacement for the nearby Strong Close mill. It was the largest textile mill in Yorkshire employing around 2000 people.The mill continued in use till around 2004. Parts of the mill had been converted for other uses. The mill that I had visited had been used as a film set for various TV programmes like the Limehouse Golem, Peaky Blinders and Downton Abbey. It suffered a fire in 2011 and the then in March of this year a huge fire ravaged the building. Over a hundred firefighters attended from 20 stations to bring the fire under control. Five youths were later arrested on suspicion of arson. It was feared that the shell would have to be demolished. But now Historic England were hoping to bring the building back to use with Bradford city council. I am not sure if this is still going ahead.
Starting up top in the attic area.
The building has added safety features for when it was used as a film set, but retains original features too.
Old posters for a film set in a pitch black area.
The lovely workshop.
And finally coming out again.
too nosey for my own good, very rookie mistake & 10 yrs into exploring too lol.
