Abandoned Pottery, Lancashire.

I wanted a quick look at this since I saw some other photos on an Urbex site. Unfortunately on this trip I got busted. I asked a farmer if the building I could see from the road was an old pottery. He said it was and also told me how to get to it. He said an old lady owned it, but she seldom left her house these days. Having done so, he then wandered off to phone the real owner. What a nice man. Note to self: do NOT go urbexing in a sign written van with my name and phone number up the sides! I was in there for around 40 minutes before a very upset owner called my mobile. He asked me to leave as he was fed up with having to drag photographers and thieves out of the building all the time. The building is dangerous and he is afraid of being sued when someone gets hurt whilst trespassing. Seemed like a nice chap, and I'm sorry to have contributed to his stress. I wouldn't encourage others to visit. Anyway, here are a few of the pics...

Pottery lurking in the trees by the roadside.

Mmm. Tasty.

The attic. Very creaky.

Hartshead Power Station

Hiding in the woods, east of Manchester

Hartshead Power Station lies to the east of Manchester and to the North West of Stalybridge.

 Preparations for a power station at Heyrod began in 1916 when 26 acres (110,000 m²) of land were purchased. The station was opened in 1926 by the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Transport and Electricity Board.^[1] The cooling towers were constructed in the 1940s. Coal was delivered to the plant at Millbrook railway sidings on the Micklehurst Line, situated on the opposite side of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. The sidings were built in 1932 and had space to hold up to 130 12-ton wagons. Coal was fed into a hopper underneath the sidings before being transported on an enclosed conveyor belt which emerged high above the valley to cross the River Tame and canal before entering the station at a high level.^[2] The station was closed on 29 October 1979 with a generating capacity of 64 megawatts.^[3] It was demolished during the 1980s, although part of the site is still used as an electrical substation.

The distribution room.

The pictures make this place look rather better than it is. Its a dump.

Good colours though.

The kitchen.

All nicely overgrown.

Main entrance.

Main entrance from within.

Lurking in the trees.

Throw the switch and the lights would go off across Hadfield and Hattersley.

...and Ashton under Lyne.

Fragglehunter throws a shape over a cable conduit. Note wet trousers. Typical Urbex feature.

Dining hall in all its splendour.

How it was. Coal shed in foreground fed fuel on conveyors 24/7. Control building lies behind left hand 

cooling tower.

Coal shed today.

Heartbreak Hotel

Fragglehunter checking out the stairs.

Here is the first page. A visit to an Hotel in deepest
darkest Lancashire. The place closed down several years
ago and has been slowly deteriorating since then.
Fortunately it has escaped the attention of the larger
Urbex community, some of whom on balance are little
better than the pikeys who steal from and smash up
places like this. It still has glass in most windows and
nice features remain. For this reason, I am not revealing
the location.

Gently crumbling away. Somebody must have loved this place.

This was once a rather nice bedroom. Shot with wide angle lens.

Lantern roof above landing. A lesson in the art of fibrous plasterwork.

This place just oozes colour.

Fragglehunter checking the menu.

Wake up to a goblin teasmade!

A tired refugee from Thatcher's Britain. And a Jaguar.

Daimler 4.2, slowly fades away.