1. The History
No too much history on this place. Graff Electronic Machines (GEM) is situated in the sleepy village of Collingham, Notts. Set up in 1983, they specialised in electronic engineering, supplying products for the Audio-Visual market, originally as the developer and manufacturer of the Graff range of High-Speed Audio Cassette Duplicators and Digitizers. One of the company’s most popular products was its GEM DigiTizer for cassette digitising. With annual sales for between one and 2.5m machines, they employed around 40 people.
They were incorporated in 2005 but things started to go awry around 2010 when they filed their last accounts. The company went bankrupt in November 2012 and the liquidators called in. GEM was then officially dissolved in 2015.
2. The Explore
Despite being left empty for a few years, this place only really surfaced recently. It is a funny place as it has a relatively large footprint for a place in a small village. It was pretty much a walk in and has been a bit thrashed of recent. There has been a lot of stuff left here but a large amount has either been smashed up or walked. The strange thing is that the long building to the left of the site looks like it has been abandoned a number of years while the rest looks like it is a more recent abandonment. Either way, it was a very enjoyable place to spend an hour or so wandering around, trying to avoid the gaze of the overlooking neighbours.
3. The Pictures
And in we go:
This was the large two-level storeroom:
This workshop was crammed with stuff:
This part was far gone:
And again, rammed with stuff:
Some sort of pressing machine:
Another machine:
This part looked like it had been abandoned for ages:
Nice curtains!
Not too sure what all these rings were used for:
Loads of mini remotes:
More stores!
No too much history on this place. Graff Electronic Machines (GEM) is situated in the sleepy village of Collingham, Notts. Set up in 1983, they specialised in electronic engineering, supplying products for the Audio-Visual market, originally as the developer and manufacturer of the Graff range of High-Speed Audio Cassette Duplicators and Digitizers. One of the company’s most popular products was its GEM DigiTizer for cassette digitising. With annual sales for between one and 2.5m machines, they employed around 40 people.
They were incorporated in 2005 but things started to go awry around 2010 when they filed their last accounts. The company went bankrupt in November 2012 and the liquidators called in. GEM was then officially dissolved in 2015.
2. The Explore
Despite being left empty for a few years, this place only really surfaced recently. It is a funny place as it has a relatively large footprint for a place in a small village. It was pretty much a walk in and has been a bit thrashed of recent. There has been a lot of stuff left here but a large amount has either been smashed up or walked. The strange thing is that the long building to the left of the site looks like it has been abandoned a number of years while the rest looks like it is a more recent abandonment. Either way, it was a very enjoyable place to spend an hour or so wandering around, trying to avoid the gaze of the overlooking neighbours.
3. The Pictures
And in we go:
This was the large two-level storeroom:
This workshop was crammed with stuff:
This part was far gone:
And again, rammed with stuff:
Some sort of pressing machine:
Another machine:
This part looked like it had been abandoned for ages:
Nice curtains!
Not too sure what all these rings were used for:
Loads of mini remotes:
More stores!
