Brick Lane, Bradford, 23.11.10

[Nicola]

Hi Folks - this was done yesterday - right after Midland Road Mills. Not as good as Midland Road but definitely worth a visit. Unfortunately I have only just learned how to use my camera on full manual and some of the pictures are not that great - still having problems shooting anything with a sky it it!

Anywho - not a great deal of history on the place and it was more of a three site visit as there are several abandoned buildings on and around the site so please forgive the bittiness of the report. The only information I can find on the building is that it was burned down in June 2010. The actual Mill itself is in a very bad way and looks to be on the point of collapse very soon.
Here goes:

We visited via this building which appears to have been a bed-making factory...


Inside it looks as though it has not been empty for long...






And then I spot the subject on my desire through the window...


We head out of the factory and make our way over a huge amount of bricks to the mill itself - although it appears that this is a chapel on the side of it. Hope someone can help me out with the history of this part?


Inside the chapel you can clearly see the damage the fire has caused...






We moved onto the Mill itself...


Inside you can clearly see how badly damaged it is - the side walls looks to be on the point of collapse and the floor above looks to be ready to fall in completely...






We then had a wee meander round the other buildings - this one used to be a an antique glass studio - although it had clearly been reused as some kind of office more lately...




Another little building along side the Mill...


Finally we head back over to where we came from...


Full set of images can be found here: http://s1214.photobucket.com/albums/.../Brick%20Lane/

Thanks for looking!

[boxfrenzy]

Really like this one Nic - that last shot is ace. Very nice stuff indeed. Good work

[Canonite]

Ooh reflections. So much potential. Nice mooch.

[crippletron 3000]

Nice

[coops]

Nice work Nicola

[converse1]

Hi Nicola, great explore this, nice one. I think the building you refer to as a chapel is in fact the engine house (close to the chimney) you see tall windows and impresive large buildings on a lot of mill building of this age, I suppose the steam engine was the most important part of a mill; it's heart if you will. So it was given the best space available!

[Nicola]

Thanks for the comments - and thanks Converse1 for the info - much appreciated!

[Rochester]

Really like this one Nic - that last shot is ace. Very nice stuff indeed. Good work

Totally agree mate, mills and reflections are my bag...

[Nicola]

Cheers - any shots with the sky in it is still proving problematic - more practice needed!

[boxerheaven]

lovely pics the last one is ace