The history
The Kodak factory in Harrow originally opened in 1891 and was also Eastman Kodak’s first manufacturing base outside America. The Harrow factory was the largest photographic manufacturing plant in the British Commonwealth, in the 1950s at the height of its output it employed more than 6,000 people.
Kodak have been present in Harrow for more than 120 years, the factory’s history charting much of the history of popular photography itself.
Due to the ever-growing popularity of digital photography, track four at the factory was shut in 2005 and ended the site’s production of film, leading to the loss of 250 jobs. Due to increased financial pressures in recent years, Kodak has now sold off the seven acre site for development.
The last shift was carried out Friday 2nd December 2016
The explore
Please be gentle as this is my first report, although not my first explore.
I’d had my eye on the Kodak factory for a while and decided to visit it on the Saturday after it closed and whilst there bumped into who I can only assume was @Urban Cleetus.
The site itself is huge and took nearly all day to get around and I still managed to miss bits, especially the great turbines that AndyK has posted.
Here are my pictures, my first time using a DSLR
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