Abandoned Asphalt Plant

This plant once made asphalt products, including flooring blocks and roofing sheets making use of locally quarried limestone. It closed around 2009. It is in deepest rural Derbyshire and we were lucky to visit on a sunny Autumnal day. It was easy access and we encountered plenty of people walking past with their dogs.

Despite being abandoned for several years, there was plenty to see.

Quite a few pieces by Coloquix, whom we had the pleasure of meeting as we left the site (he was in the process of working on another piece)

       A budding Van Gogh had created a "Starry Night" mural in one of the rooms.

An Archimedes screw.

Despite being nowhere near any water, there was an abandoned boat.

                                                                 More work by Coloquix.

It was a rather good little mooch - thanks to Judderman for driving!

Allen Brickworks revisited

Judderman invited me to a revisit to Allen Brickworks in January. It has been just over four years since my last visit and it was interesting to see it again, this time visiting some parts that I hadn't seen last time. It was a freezing cold Sunday morning when we arrived and we had the place to ourselves at first. We later came across a graff artist and then some foolhardy kids who climbed onto the roof of one of the derelict buildings!

The place is thoroughly trashed but still retains some charm. There is an abundance of abandoned bricks, so I amused myself with a game of "Spot the brick". 

There is a range of graff - and no end of walls for artists to paint on.

I finally found a piece of graff that I remembered seeing four years ago . . . 

it seems to have faded. 

We spent about four hours on site. It's surprisingly larger than I remembered. All in all, it was a pleasing Sunday mooch.