Barracks Fabric Printers Macclesfield 06/14
I can find very little history on this place - apart from it's opening in 1924, pioneering silk screen material printing, storage for carpet tiles and some scrotes lighting it up in 2004!
I worked just off the Silk Road for six years and spent most of that time vowing to investigate the place, it is visible from the main road and it had caught my attention. After two other possible sites proved impossible, I decided to try and scrub this one off my wish list. It's only taken seven years so it was that bit more satisfying! What I didn't realise was just how big it is, I spent two hours finding more and more little cubby holes before leaving. I saw some other reports and it's amazing just how much it has overgrown and how trashed it is! Feel free to post some facts as I can find diddly! Lift! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps28b47ac9.jpg Design Offices: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps5537d31d.jpg All the shop floors look like this, they seemed to go on forever! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps0e7aa0e1.jpg Not from the river then? http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...psae4bbd50.jpg Big ass boilers! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps673ce72d.jpg Upper level: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...psd53bad81.jpg Control panel: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps21300e09.jpg Rear end of the boilers! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...psee4bd3ae.jpg These reminded me of tombstones! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps03be81ca.jpg Boilers 0 Nature 1: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps09bf0ebe.jpg Storage area? http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps650cf9e6.jpg More panels! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps70aed7b7.jpg Below ground level! It took me ages to find a safe way down! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps4017e3e6.jpg Old machine! I was greeted by a Bat in here! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...psfb9cee99.jpg Workshop and office! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps7aa494b1.jpg One hell of a sucker! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...psfa5dafc5.jpg Very big cylinder! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps8af8b31d.jpg Below the storage area! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...psa5084658.jpg Pumphouse by the river! http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...psc4812280.jpg |
Wouldn't mind a poke around here myself - like those Lanky boilers and economisers. :thumbs
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This was the place in 2009. Those trees haven't half got going in the boiler house.
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