Little to no history on this one, only what I've managed to piece together myself.
There is an area in Bradford called "Little Germany", so called because a number of German merchants took up premises in the area in the early 1900's to take advantage of the bustling wool trade the city once had. Schutt seems to have been one of these merchants.
On first glance the mill looked like one of the most fetted crack pits we had ever seen, enough to stop Turk venturing further than the threshold. Needles don't bother proper explorers too much so Squirrel OT and I braved a mooch inside.
The mill is pretty empty but very original. Half is decimated from a fire but the other half is explorable, despite spongy floors and a heavy dusting of skag paraphernalia.
By far the most interesting find lay on top of a sack of coal in the basement, a pile of 30's paperwork which contained amongst other things a bundle of 1938/39 German newspapers which must have belonged to the owner or perhaps another German worker. I'm sure they would make very interesting reading if I could only read German!
I keep seeing these sharpened pegs in wool mills. I've managed to find out they were used for fastening the jute sacks of wool together
There is an area in Bradford called "Little Germany", so called because a number of German merchants took up premises in the area in the early 1900's to take advantage of the bustling wool trade the city once had. Schutt seems to have been one of these merchants.
On first glance the mill looked like one of the most fetted crack pits we had ever seen, enough to stop Turk venturing further than the threshold. Needles don't bother proper explorers too much so Squirrel OT and I braved a mooch inside.
The mill is pretty empty but very original. Half is decimated from a fire but the other half is explorable, despite spongy floors and a heavy dusting of skag paraphernalia.
By far the most interesting find lay on top of a sack of coal in the basement, a pile of 30's paperwork which contained amongst other things a bundle of 1938/39 German newspapers which must have belonged to the owner or perhaps another German worker. I'm sure they would make very interesting reading if I could only read German!
I keep seeing these sharpened pegs in wool mills. I've managed to find out they were used for fastening the jute sacks of wool together
