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Terry's Chocolate, York - Jan 15

hamtagger

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Terry's Chocolate Factory

The Explore

Alarm clock springs into life at 3:30am, it feels like someone has thrown sand in my eyes and I wonder for a split second why i'm awake this early. Then I remember.. explore day :cool2:

I drove up to meet Matt Inked, then onwards to York to rendezvous with Session9. A quick chin-wag then onto the first target of the day before the sun came up. We had a quick look at the factory building and possible access to it was found, but decided to have a look at the tower and admin building first and quickly realised the tower was sadly shut tight and the admin building wasn't looking too good either at that point :( We went back and spent an hour or two in the factory, then decided to check out the admin building one more time and thankfully this time found our way inside....

The History

Terry's was a chocolate and confectionery maker in York, England. Its history stretched back to 1767, but in 1993 it was taken over by Kraft Foods. The company's headquarters, later renamed The Chocolate Works factory, was closed by Kraft in 2005, and products using the Terry's brand name are now produced in other Kraft facilities in Poland, Sweden, Belgium, and Slovakia. The Terry's name eventually became part of Mondelēz International.

The Pictures

1. Large factory building to the left, clock tower in the middle, and admin building to the right.

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2. The sun slowly appearing on a frosty morning

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7,8,9. Factory puddle reflections (7 and 9 are inverted :eek: )

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10. Moving on to the admin building..

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11. That Staircase...

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12. The Skylight...

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14. Main admin "shop floor"

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16. Admin Roof

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17. Above the dome

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18. Roof "attic" enclosed on the roof of admin

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It was a shame that the tower was sealed shut as tight as the preverbal nuns chuff, but believe it we did try. Maybe next time.

As always, thanks for looking and all feedback much appreciated (y)


 

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Awesome!

I hope my pictures look like this when I can be bothered to flick through anything other than the stairs :)

The puddle shots are insane! (y)

 

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Cheers Matt mate. After half a day farting about on Lightroom i realised i had no idea what the funk I was doing so just posted with some minor aviary edits in the end (y)

 

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Some cracking pics there mate, looks like you had a good wander (y)

:comp

 

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Thanks lenston mate (y)

It was frustrating that the tower was sealed but the admin building made up for it in the end :p

 

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Yeah that admin building is something else :)

 

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Yeah that admin building is something else :)
Yeah mate, It's quite a place isn't it. Quite sad that the whole time we were in there we could hear the clatter of diggers and JCB's pretty much feet from the admin blocks walls :(

 

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Nice report mate I heard a rumour about some service tunnels running to the tower but I couldnt find any :( awesome reflections (y)

 

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Nice report mate I heard a rumour about some service tunnels running to the tower but I couldnt find any :( awesome reflections (y)
Cheers Raz mate (y)

Yeah, we scoured the place for ages as we really wanted to get up there, we found a few underground bits in the hope of it leading to the tower but unfortunately they've sealed it up pretty good :( Frustrating to not get to see all the bits of a place :angry2:

 

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Quality mate :)

the reflections got me thinking I must get me vision checked or is it the :beer2: !

Havent even got me camera out the bag after its Yorkshire holiday. :eek:

 

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Quality mate :) the reflections got me thinking I must get me vision checked or is it the :beer2: !

Havent even got me camera out the bag after its Yorkshire holiday. :eek:
Mine was out of the bag on my way through my front door. I walked over to my laptop and started Checking them all out and editing haha! My wife wasn't exactly what I'd call over the moon ;)

 

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Good stuff lads, was a good day. Here's to more days like this :beer:

 
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