Rylands Mill, Wigan August 2016

[mookster]

The day after Fole Dairy and Westwood school myself and OverArch woke up somewhere deep in the north, excited for the prospects of a whole day of explores ahead. Sadly, and rather quickly, the excitement turned into disappointment and frustration as simply nothing went our way. Fail followed fail followed tactical retreat, the only place we ended up doing successfully from the long list of places I had gathered was Rylands Mill in Wigan - and even that came at a personal cost to me - as something caught on my foot in the old weaving sheds area which meant I got an unplanned and extremely close up view of the broken brick and slate covered floor whilst my hand and arm took a trip into a large patch of stinging nettles growing out the damp floor. I examined the photo I took of the area I fell and still can't work out what exactly caused me to fall.​

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With my pride damaged, my knees hurting, arms stinging and camera with a few more battle scars we carried on...to another fail. It wasn't the best place ever but at least the day wasn't a total bust...​

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Anyway, this was a very big former textile mill which after closure was part converted into a college campus, there was a fairly big fire in the top floor not so long ago which caused some bad damage to the roof.​

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This below is the area I fell in - I got comparatively lucky - as had I fallen to the left rather than the right I would have gone straight onto the foot of the metal barrier lying on it's side...​

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Thanks for looking  ​

 

[Vulex]

Nice report, I was here the other night as its pretty much around the corner from me and to my surprise there was secca onsite. Did you not fancy the air raid shelters in the grounds?

 

[mookster]

Nice report, I was here the other night as its pretty much around the corner from me and to my surprise there was secca onsite. Did you not fancy the air raid shelters in the grounds?

Thats surprising, nobody there when we went. Maybe it's just a night thing to stop firebugs.

Not gonna lie, didn't even realise there was a shelter...

 

[jones-y-gog]

I feel your pain mooks  :wacko:

 

[Ferox]

Nice report mate, I quite liked it here. Know what you mean about a string of fails bud. We had a taste of it last weekend. RAF Stenigot was our get out of jail card that day  :-D

 

[Urbexbandoned]

I like the symmetry of that floor with the red, mate anyone can fall. Just nice that you didn't hurt yourself too bad. Onwards and upwards  nice pics 

 

[scrappy]

Nice report, I was here the other night as its pretty much around the corner from me and to my surprise there was secca onsite. Did you not fancy the air raid shelters in the grounds?

I was also going to say about the shelters within the grounds. Not a bad place and a few good shots to be had. Shame about the fall but it happens to everyone.

 

[Vulex]

Theyve been sealed now. I went last night and a digger (left tracks behind) has lifted some concrete blocks onto the entrance. Im gutted as now I can shoot in the dark better I wanted to document some local history. 

@scrappy @mookster

 

[scrappy]

Theyve been sealed now. I went last night and a digger (left tracks behind) has lifted some concrete blocks onto the entrance. Im gutted as now I can shoot in the dark better I wanted to document some local history. 

@scrappy @mookster

That's crap, but to be honest I thought they would have sealed them years ago.