S8
24-09-2008, 12:17 PM
Another one for you all...
Unwin Brothers, Philip Unwin & Sir Stanley Unwin are one of the longest established printers in the UK and have been around for 180 years and held residence in the Woking works since 1896. From what i understand they were responsible for developing the Gresham Press.
The Woking site was closed down in 2007 and production was moved to a new facility in Chessington due to a merger with another print work that had gone into administration, Lasting Impressions.
I didn't even know this site existed until it popped up on 28dl, and i only live round the corner!!! Good explore, even if we did get rattled by security and make a very hasty exit through the fence...
The outside, has that awesome victorian mill look, shame it is demo'd now :(
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1336.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1345.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1343.jpg
And the interior
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1280.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1282.jpg
The main warehouse??
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1293.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1292.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1288.jpg
Loading/dispatch bay
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1295.jpg
Yet another place that discarded their paper work :?
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1303.jpg
More workshop areas
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1309.jpg
And someone must have tripped with the hole punch lol
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1312.jpg
Looking up at the shop-floor managers office
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1318.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1320.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1324.jpg
There veiw on the workers
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1322.jpg
That site we never want to see...lol
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1315.jpg
I keep meaning to head back over there and get a few photos of what is left
Unwin Brothers, Philip Unwin & Sir Stanley Unwin are one of the longest established printers in the UK and have been around for 180 years and held residence in the Woking works since 1896. From what i understand they were responsible for developing the Gresham Press.
The Woking site was closed down in 2007 and production was moved to a new facility in Chessington due to a merger with another print work that had gone into administration, Lasting Impressions.
I didn't even know this site existed until it popped up on 28dl, and i only live round the corner!!! Good explore, even if we did get rattled by security and make a very hasty exit through the fence...
The outside, has that awesome victorian mill look, shame it is demo'd now :(
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1336.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1345.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1343.jpg
And the interior
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1280.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1282.jpg
The main warehouse??
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1293.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1292.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1288.jpg
Loading/dispatch bay
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1295.jpg
Yet another place that discarded their paper work :?
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1303.jpg
More workshop areas
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1309.jpg
And someone must have tripped with the hole punch lol
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1312.jpg
Looking up at the shop-floor managers office
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1318.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1320.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1324.jpg
There veiw on the workers
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1322.jpg
That site we never want to see...lol
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/mixologist/DSC_1315.jpg
I keep meaning to head back over there and get a few photos of what is left