So yesterday @fastchrisuk and myself headed back out to Ilkeston on a reccie. Near to a previous visit of old WW2 Air Raid shelters was an abandonded factory that we were looking to explore. Unfortunately there was no way in and we believe the factory may not be completely abandoned too. So we had a wander, in full view of security cameras (don't know if they were working or not), so that they could see we weren't up to no good and carried on.
Funny story too, we also went the long way round, hence the title. Instead of going right after a hole in fence we went left, which included a very steep hill and thorns the size of wire barbs that definitely got me!
After a refuel of an Italian Stack from McDonalds (I think I still prefer the quarter pounder with cheese!) we headed to another location of Oakwell Brickworks (Hoffman Kiln). Chris had been in before so I headed in myself. After climbing through a hole in the fence and heading around the building I went in through an opening in the underground level, which I believe is called the fire passage, which then took me though an opening into the top section..
Below is the section that I came through
..and below is the section that was in front of me..
Once I had climbed up the brickwork on the right I was in the top section which can be seen below. Half of the roof is missing but a lot of the structure is still present..
There was also some old Grafitti too, which I always like..
Finally we have a couple of external shots
If you're interested in finding out more I found the below link before writing this post in the hope of finding the actual name of this location. It also has some photos of the underground section that I entered in through..
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Thanks very much for looking
Kind Regards, Neil