Report - Fletchers Paper Mill - Oldham - Feb 2012

[Bugsuperstar]

It was good to pay this place a visit, the morning after the Manchester meet we'd planned to meet M9 and Tweek early... Hidden was to be our alarm clock, after he shamelessly slept through the beep for a few hours we eventually dragged ourselves over to Fletchers. The lads were there waiting alright. We made it past the local nosy parkers no bother and made our way in. From memory it was a fun access, involving climbing and some dangling and I absolutely made it look a lot harder than it actually was.

Have a look at this video too.

Good times were had playing with the industrial goodness. It was snowing. NickUK was SO cold.

Fletchers paper mill closed in 2003, what a place! This is nothing new and if you don't know about this classic place then please spend some time following the links at the bottom of this page and click this too.

Visited with Hidden, Tweek, M9 and ColdUK. The best memories.

There was a little bit of everything at Fletchers and more has been found and explored since. Sadly I've never managed to return.

Thanks for the memories lads

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[Ojay]

About the same time the back-handed Phosphor bronze stealing lot managed a run around the place

 

[Seffy]

Seen so many photos of this place but never actually saw it myself. Yours are banging mate!

 

[Bugsuperstar]

good old Fletchers, nice report & pics

Thanks man

Seen so many photos of this place but never actually saw it myself. Yours are banging mate!

Thanks mate! This was a great day. Got to see it yourself though for sure.

 

[HughieD]

Man. That's the daddy. Fab archive report.

 

[tumbles]

Fletchers defo one of my all time fav explores. I don’t ever think has the same sort of ‘fire alarm’ feel. By that I mean walked out for a fire alarm mid shift and never return. Which is pretty much what happened - given bags to put stuff in and that was it

 

[Bugsuperstar]

Man. That's the daddy. Fab archive report.

Thanks, great memories from here.

Fletchers defo one of my all time fav explores. I don’t ever think has the same sort of ‘fire alarm’ feel. By that I mean walked out for a fire alarm mid shift and never return. Which is pretty much what happened - given bags to put stuff in and that was it

Yeah I get what you mean mate. There’s a few places I’ve been that felt like that. Some parts of Rank Hovis in hull had a similar feel back in the day. Fletchers is definitely up there with the best of them for sure.

 

[mookster]

Can't believe I've never made it here, got no excuses after this lockdown ends!

 

[albino-jay]

it’s so good fletchers. Never tire of seeing it. It’s not changed massively either over the years. Nice report mate.

 

[jST]

About the same time the back-handed Phosphor bronze stealing lot managed a run around the place

You mention this on every Fletchers report, what's the story?

 

[Bugsuperstar]

Can't believe I've never made it here, got no excuses after this lockdown ends!

It’s worth the effort for sure!

it’s so good fletchers. Never tire of seeing it. It’s not changed massively either over the years. Nice report mate.

Thanks man

 

[tumbles]

You mention this on every Fletchers report, what's the story?

There is also the previous problems here with people stealing BA kit and selling it on eBay. The police then left ones marked specially inside to catch the culprits out

 

[Ojay]

You mention this on every Fletchers report, what's the story?

Someone whizzed all that tackle out of there a number of years back, would have made a hell of a racket and wouldn't have been easy to remove without someone turning a blind eye

 

[The Lone Ranger]

Someone whizzed all that tackle out of there a number of years back, would have made a hell of a racket and wouldn't have been easy to remove without someone turning a blind eye

It was removed using a Stihl saw or similar, think of a petrol driven chainsaw, but with a disk on. They are not quiet especially within a large derelict building. Security would have been sat about 70 meters away and that's if they were not patrolling the site. However nothing was heard of the event and to remove all the phosphorous bronze bearing would have been a good few hours work.

Someone got a brown paper envelope full of crisp notes, possibly the site owner didn't know. Security turned a blind eye or should I say a deaf ear to this theft.

 

[Bugsuperstar]

It was removed using a Stihl saw or similar, think of a petrol driven chainsaw, but with a disk on. They are not quiet especially within a large derelict building. Security would have been sat about 70 meters away and that's if they were not patrolling the site. However nothing was heard of the event and to remove all the phosphorous bronze bearing would have been a good few hours work.

Someone got a brown paper envelope full of crisp notes, possibly the site owner didn't know. Security turned a blind eye or should I say a deaf ear to this theft.

Yeah it’s shocking how this kind of thing happens. I remember years ago walking past an old favorite local explore and hearing the stihl saws rattling away inside, no police or security to be seen.

It kind of makes a joke out of how we all creep around trying to be all quiet and that ha.