Well I haven't been on this site for a while, first of all I hope you are doing well, and second this mill was probably the biggest bastard to get into ever...
It stared with a train ride to Clayton west via "the Kirklees light railway", a couple whistle blows later we arrived, originally to rooftop a mast, but then realising the mast had electric razor wire at the bottom... well naturally we fucked it off for a mill.
Now I've never really bothered with this mill, because the mills in the area are so much more interesting... it is surrounded by an ugly industrial estate (which presumably were the weaving sheds) with the original mill building still in-tact. It brought me in, as what was the storage looked decisively derelict. We later found out that as derelict as it is, getting in would be the hard part!
The culvert seemed to be our best option, the only problem we had no wellies
:... in other words, get ready to be a bit wet... we waited for the businesses to bugger off , then scaled down a drain pipe and went for it. I took these next set of pics on a I-phone so apologies for the quality.
we arrived at the mill, from what we could see, a pipe would lead on to the mill roof and from that we hoped that there was an open window on the roof.
It would be a risk with our wet boots but we decided to go for it, the risk paid off with a beautiful view of Yorkshire fields with some good mill shots mixed in. Unfortunately I only managed to get one shot of the roof... and the others were there for the experience not the pictures.
The roof crossed two different sections, a modern business and the derelict bit you can see in the background, it was slightly dodgy as the entire roof was covered in alarms, but we made it to an open window and documented it... heres some pictures from he inside
And a sneak peek to a down stairs bit what we couldn't access, seems like there were some dryers down there; shame we couldn't get down there really!
To finish off when we got down an angry man came up running to us shouting and waving his fist, he let his dog off, well, we stoked the dog and bugged off lol
Thanks to: @TheFoxyOne & @Oxygen lawyer for joining me!
It stared with a train ride to Clayton west via "the Kirklees light railway", a couple whistle blows later we arrived, originally to rooftop a mast, but then realising the mast had electric razor wire at the bottom... well naturally we fucked it off for a mill.
Now I've never really bothered with this mill, because the mills in the area are so much more interesting... it is surrounded by an ugly industrial estate (which presumably were the weaving sheds) with the original mill building still in-tact. It brought me in, as what was the storage looked decisively derelict. We later found out that as derelict as it is, getting in would be the hard part!
The culvert seemed to be our best option, the only problem we had no wellies
:... in other words, get ready to be a bit wet... we waited for the businesses to bugger off , then scaled down a drain pipe and went for it. I took these next set of pics on a I-phone so apologies for the quality.
we arrived at the mill, from what we could see, a pipe would lead on to the mill roof and from that we hoped that there was an open window on the roof.
It would be a risk with our wet boots but we decided to go for it, the risk paid off with a beautiful view of Yorkshire fields with some good mill shots mixed in. Unfortunately I only managed to get one shot of the roof... and the others were there for the experience not the pictures.
The roof crossed two different sections, a modern business and the derelict bit you can see in the background, it was slightly dodgy as the entire roof was covered in alarms, but we made it to an open window and documented it... heres some pictures from he inside
And a sneak peek to a down stairs bit what we couldn't access, seems like there were some dryers down there; shame we couldn't get down there really!
To finish off when we got down an angry man came up running to us shouting and waving his fist, he let his dog off, well, we stoked the dog and bugged off lol
Thanks to: @TheFoxyOne & @Oxygen lawyer for joining me!
Some history if your interested btw
Built in the 18th century as a woollen mill, the mill survived until the 1980's when it converted into an industrial estate; apparently missing one bit out
