Report - Wells fireworks factory - Dartford - May 2021

[Hidinginplanesite]

The explore :

Been meaning to go to wells factory for a while now but for some reason just didn’t, The drive up to it not that far from me so it okay for a semi-local mooch

Once we got up there we walk up the country lane as we heard about people being locked in at the gate ( To stop fly-tipping)

Before you ask where “well fireworks factory “ is - it a landmark on google now! I assume so many people have been there over the year

Once we outside the old fireworks factory, we walk right in with no issue at all first was greeted by a very run-down building, that pretty much fallen apart, as we keep walking around, Most of the huts was taken over by Mother Nature the brambles was so high

Some of the huts were doable but not all of them, there was a well-trodden down cut back parth going right down the middle, and some cut back path into the building but not all of them.

As the sun was setting the place started to get more spooky! Defo a place I won’t be going back in a hurry

history : https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dartford/news/the-amazing-past-of-fireworks-firm-215592/
Kent lighterman Joseph Wells founded the explosives firm in 1837 and it operated from multiple premises before settling in Joyce Green Lane in 1938.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I thought I was the only one to do here lol. I did this 2019, so many huts left. The original sign is there, I only saw it recently as I checked out the old cottage at the beginning of the lane. This has to be one of the longest abandoned on here. Over 184 years yrs old. And abandoned for 50 yrs. I live just across from way from here. I havnt bothered reporting it, I might do now. It was iconic in the area.

 

[RXQueen]

Nice to see you got further than me it was so overgrown last year I struggled to get to a lot

 

[Hidinginplanesite]

Nice to see you got further than me it was so overgrown last year I struggled to get to a lot

a lot still over Grown but there like footparth leading into into some buildings and up to the back and stuff you can see where ppl walked also @Gaggle of gays dug out the bunker by the first building ( at the back ) I just didn’t go in

 

[Hidinginplanesite]

I thought I was the only one to do here lol. I did this 2019, so many huts left. The original sign is there, I only saw it recently as I checked out the old cottage at the beginning of the lane. This has to be one of the longest abandoned on here. Over 184 years yrs old. And abandoned for 50 yrs. I live just across from way from here. I havnt bothered reporting it, I might do now. It was iconic in the area.

mob my legs hurt after going to this , as I just said to person below , a lot footparth And few cut back bits to still can’t get in a lot them ! Also a friend of mine found a bunker and dug it out too ! Near the first building at the back just didn’t go in it lol

 

[Calamity Jane]

mob my legs hurt after going to this , as I just said to person below , a lot footparth And few cut back bits to still can’t get in a lot them ! Also a friend of mine found a bunker and dug it out too ! Near the first building at the back just didn’t go in it lol

Really, was the bunker in a good state, do you know? I managed to get round most of it. Photographed quite a few huts. Yep your right there is sort of a path. But the shooting range over the back unnerved me a little lol