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Bass Maltings, Sleaford, March 2015

MrT

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I think we all know and love this place so ill try and keep it short and sweet. A nice long re-visit to this place with zero. We was lucky and clever enough to get in 90%+ of this place, lots of dodgy climbing, balancing and ripped clothes was worth it.

Designed specifically to facilitate three key stages in the production of beer, Bass Malting's is a Grade II* listed complex built between 1901 and 1907 that consists of nine parallel ranges. The central block with its engine house and water tower is flanked by six-storey malt houses on either side and occupies a site of 13.3 acres with a frontage almost 1,000 ft long. Malting's operations ceased in 1959 and the buildings were subsequently used for poultry farming and vegetable processing.

Every year is meant to be progress for regeneration, all that happens is fires, vandalism, red tape from councils and company's whilst she continues to deteriorate.

Developers say they are still committed to transforming Sleaford’s iconic Bass Malting's buildings, despite one of the key partners pulling out of the project. Avant Homes, which owns the Grade II Listed structure, is sticking to its original proposals to transform the buildings into a mixed development of residential, healthcare and community facilities, but the developers say the progress of the redevelopment will be delayed. The plans were dependant on a new road from Boston Road to Grantham Road being built, which supermarket giant Tesco had agreed to pay for as well as building a brand new superstore for the town.

When and what happens next is anyone's guess.

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I love exploration and everything that goes with it, well apart from doing reports, FB, websites etc. Ill try my best to improve on this in 2015.

Hope you enjoyed the report.

 
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Brilliant shots mate (y) never get bored of this place and the shit scary rotten bridges :D

 

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Thanks pal, its interesting place that's for sure. Cant believe they applied to demolish it years ago. Ha ha yeah, some scary rotten bits in that place

 

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Some really cracking photos there mate, cheers for posting. Good to see the tower has opened up again as the last time i visited they'd secured the door at the top of the spiral stairs :(

Good to see some bits i've missed, i'll have to pop back in for more shots sometime as it's close to where i live :)

 

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Great shots and write up Mr T.

Makes a nice change also to see some night shots of the place (y)

:comp

 

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Thanks dude, last visit was a few month back, was all pretty much open when using a bit of clever thinking

 

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Cheers man, struggle with write ups. Ill try get some more up whilst recovering. My camera see's more night time than day time QUOTE=skeleton key;70081]Great shots and write up Mr T.

Makes a nice change also to see some night shots of the place (y)

:comp

 

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Thats cool as and when as always good to see.

Last time was here was years ago and had this eagle swooping all over the place and was ace

 

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That's excellent Mr T, nothing wrong with your write up and some of these shots are a bit special, especially loving the star trails (y)

 

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Thanks bud, ill get some more stuff up soon. Got a grab a star trail :)

 

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You've got some really cool pics there, love that little walkway between buildings.

 

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You've got some really cool pics there, love that little walkway between buildings.
Thanks, lucky to have this as a local explore. Still a great place after 25 years of neglect.

 

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No worries, I'll have to get to this at some point. Some nice bits there

 
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