Great Britain Clare Tooling, Manchester - May 2015

[macc_explore]

The Explore

So this was a good few months back now and after seeing the newspaper articles of one side of the building totally collapsing I'm glad I got in to see it but does open your eyes to how dangerous these buildings can be without us knowing..

The first few floors have you thinking its just another empty building but then you walk into the old office rooms!!!!!

The History

The Excelsior Printing and Bookbinding Works was originally opened on the Monday 4th July 1870 and the owner at the time was Mr John Heywood.

At the time when it was opened this place could take on upto 750 employees and was one of the largest of it kind. Clare Tooling Systems occupied the building around the late 80's early 90's.

 

[Lenston]

Cool stuff mate

 

[jones-y-gog]

Wooah that's deffo a sketchy looking place, well done on venturing in!

 

[hamtagger]

Ropey looking building but i was amazed to see those little drawers and bits and bobs still in situ

 

[The_Raw]

Jeez you wouldn't wanna be in there when that collapse took place, that's mental

 

[macc_explore]

Scary isn't it.. The floors didn't seem that bad in most of it either. Top floor was pretty ropey though so maybe that came down and brought the rest with it

 

[Albino-jay]

Nice report and pics mate. This is one that i really regret not doing. Went for a walk down the canal one day but the mrs wouldnt let me get in. Then i forgot about it and saw it in the paper. Now its gone :-( 

Looked an interesting little place too. 

 

[Karenp]

Aww wow! Thank you for sharing these photos. I worked at Clare Collets (the original name of Clare Tooling) back in 1986 as an office junior when I left school