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Old Hemp Factory, used to work on water power. It used to make ropes and textile. Before the Second World War Edessa was called "Manchester of the east" because of it's textile industry. The Germans destroyed most of the industry in the war. After the war water power was not important anymore and the industry languished.
Deze hennepfabriek werkte op waterkracht en fabriceerde textiel en touw. Voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd Edessa wel het "Manchester van het oosten" genoemd, vanwege deze industrie (in Nederlandse termen wellicht het Twente van Griekenland). Tijdens de Duitse bezetting werd een flink deel van de stad vernietigd, inclusief de fabrieken. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog nam de betekenis van waterkracht af en de industrie kwijnde weg. De fabriekshal op de foto is deels een café restaurant geworden, in het grootste deel van de fabriekshal staan de oude machines nog (weer?) opgesteld. Het heeft een museale functie en is vrij te bezoeken. Ik vond het een absolute aanrader, maar dat kan je ook wel zien aan de hoeveelheid gemaakte foto's!
A resturant & bar & bookstore called Old Factory in zone 798 Beijing, where lots of old industrial buildings are renovated into art galleries and bars etc. This photo was taken during a dinner.
Considerable numbers of locally-owned PSVs, belonging to operators large and small, could be found every weekday afternoon during the late 1970s at Yate, near Bristol. Yate is now thought of as a New Town, but in its older parts, along the Badminton road, there were two large factories, "Newman's" and "Parnell's". Newman Industries, I know, is gone. The site became a supermarket ...Sainsbury, I think. I am unsure whether Parnell's is still there. During the war the firm had made aircraft gun turrets. The associated airfield had been sold as building land and eventually became the "aerodrome estate". But by now Parnell's had placed its efforts firmly behind Britain's peacetime consumerist prosperity; the firm made Creda washing machines.
So, at knocking-off time on Thursday 27th April 1978, the buses and coaches gathered as usual in the gravelled car park at the front of the factory, shortly to disperse throughout the north Bristol suburbs and the villages and small towns of South Gloucestershire. Among them was this vehicle belonging to Durbin, Patchway, who traded as Western Roadways. It is of a rather uncommon type, the Seddon Pennine VI, with 57-seat Plaxton bodywork. Durbin's did not long survive the date of this photograph. It was whispered that they had been closed down because Ministry inspectors had been dissatisfied with maintenance arrangements. The business was acquired by another Bristol independent, R. C., O. I. & A. J. Turner, but all trace of the Western Roadways name and fleet soon disappeared.
Built 1936 for Ripaults by A H Durnford. Pevsner comments: 'The only remaining interwar factory [in this area] with some panache.' It seems that at the time this comment was made, the factory was derelict (and presumably under threat) but is now occupied by the solid engineering firm Man Erf.
the abandoned Jupiter Factory Pripyat, the story was that the factory made tape recorders. but really the factory was making military equipment for the army.
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The Partagas factory in central Havana is one of only 2 open to the public in the city. It is an original building constructed in 1845 and as far as I can tell hasn't changed much since then (think Dickens' workhouse and you get the idea of the inside).
Hundreds of men and women sit facing one direction rolling cigars. In the morning a reader reads them the newspaper over a loudspeaker and in the afternoon, part of a book. It takes 9 months of daily training to learn to roll a cigar. It is very complicated and quite a skill.
No photos inside were allowed. Shame. Definitely a highlight of our trip.
Glasgow, Scotland.
In the late 19th century, the owners of the site wanted to build a factory there but the Victorian city council kept rejecting their design proposals.
So they recruited a top architect, William Leiper. He came up with a proposal, modelled on the Doge's Palace in Venice, which was built in 1892 in polychromatic brick - orange, yellow, blue, with turrets and arched and circular windows.
It is no longer a carpet factory - it has become a business centre instead.
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This was the winning image in the Factory Theatre contest, and was featured to the visitors at the Factory Theatre during the Doors Open 2011 event at Factory Theatre.
Some Hero Factory figures on display - as I'm not into this stuff I don't know if these sets are new or not, but I promised I'd snap some pictures for people who are more interested than I am. Sorry it took me so long to upload them!
The former Cadbury's/Fry's chocolate factory and houses built for the its workers, as seen from the River Avon's water meadows at Keynsham, Somerset, 7 March 2021. When development was proposed for this area (a marina and golf course) a geo-phys survey revealed extensive Roman remains which were the original Roman town of Trajectus.