Popped in here of a weekend afternoon with Dempsey and WDW in Feb and enjoyed it a surprising amount! Plenty of vintage machinery and signage to occupy the eyes and mind, and a pretty relaxed jaunt about really, we were on our toes because it seemed like someone should be there, but we didn't see a soul aside from the expected security patrols. Good shop!
Making our way onsite from the back, first stop (as is so often the case with us) was to find out what was at the bottom of that there chimney...
A lot more modern than we were expecting at first.
Ok, vintage controls, what for though?
Rounded the corner from the disappointingly noughties boilers to find this AEI badboy sat in-situ. Oof.
Couple more for good measure...
Moving on, next stop was the stores/workshops.
Pulping, Blending, Bleaching.
It actually stank of human faeces in here. I have been in many a sewer that smelled better!
Finally moving onto the paper machines themselves. There were two in situ, each with a shed to itself, though being identical we only shot the one. Was quite cool in here once again with dated control panels, giant tools lying around and notice boards explaining the different parts of the machine (they must have been expecting over-enthusiastic geeks with no prior knowledge of the paper industry or something).
Ta!
