balne mills, wakefield 03/06/11

[robbo1980]

took a trip to this building, an intresting one this one. was a big place & took while to get round.

these victorian mills were in recent years a premises for local woodworking company greenwood & wood.

they offered a bispoke office furniture making facility to businesses around the UK

like many that suffered, they went bust in 2009, leaving many in the local area redundent. the place is empty, although there are some heavy machines still inside the place & occupies 112, sq ft of land

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[robbo1980]

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[Only2Eyes]

Nice work mate, like it.

You've doubled up your image tags so you might want to tidy it up a wee bit and maybe get it on one post. Also, don't stick the exact date in the title, month and year will do :thumb

[Canonite]

Nice one mate, a mate of mine used to work here and got made redundant.

[robbo1980]

cheers, more explores pictures to come

[MJS]

Nice looking spot

[Krypton]

looks like a good sire - thanks for posting.

Do you want your second post merged into the first one?

[Nicola]

Good first report - your membership has been upgraded - you can now post any new reports in the relevant sections, chat to other explorers in the chat box and comment on posts - looking forward to seeing some more of your explores! :thumb

[blackbunkers]

More great British industry destroyed :( Great post though.

[SaltGeorge]

Looks like Greenwood & Wood became part of the Eastlake Group, which branded itself Eastlake Commercial Interiors. They went into administration in 2009 (link (http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Jobs-at-risk--at.5229017.jp)). They'd been very aquisitive, with many trading names so it's difficult to pick out exactly what was going on but it looks like the profitable bits became Work Inc and then Europa International (http://www.europainternational.com/) (link (http://www.pfmonthenet.net/featuresarchive/article.aspx?ArticleID=24987)).

That's a nice looking factory unit, looks like the administrators stripped it to pay off the creditors.

[j0nny]

Good post, love how the machine shop has one machine left... :thumb

[Wakey Lad]

Worked in the machine shop here in 2002, sad to see it like this :(

[Canonite]

Worked in the machine shop here in 2002, sad to see it like this :(

You may know a Kev Mountain then?

[coops]

My kind of place ... cracking mate thanks for sharing

[Wakey Lad]

You may know a Kev Mountain then?
Name does not ring a bell? I was only there a few months.......Shit money, shit work and the boss was a cock lol! :thumb