A closer look at one of the drums. Chrome was used in making the skins better suited for leather products, and probably some substance containing it was led to the drums. This also meant that the soil under and around the factory was seriously contaminated.
The contamination levels were such, that in fact the authorities had warned that constant presence around the factory was a health hazard.
Strange wooden things, which probably also had a role in the leather production back in the days.
Probably they were an important part of the production, as there were so many of them.
This is the view one floor up. Here the space wasn’t divided by a wall in the middle. Also this area had been modernized at some point, probably in the 1970’s.
The racks had probably held animal skins before they had been cut and processed further.
A large desk with a ventilation pipe. Work at this station had either included a lot of dust or hazardous gases.
Either the large blue thing was a machine or then those are ventilation channels installed later.
When I said that this floor has probably been modernized later, I meant that the materials were different. This floor included a lot of light walls and flakeboard walls, which weren’t in use when the factory was first built in the 1940’s.
In the corner is another sign of modernization. That thing has sucked something out of this space. But once again I do not know the process of working leather well enough to tell what has happened here.
The brick walls may be original, although I have my doubts. The bricks seem too clinical to be from the 1940’s.
We weren’t alone in the building.
another working area and even more lightweight wall panels.
The amount of windows removed before destruction started was pretty surprising.
Some of the windows removed actually had blinds installed. The design of them makes me think that the building was still actively being renovated in the 1980’s before closure.
A very old and broken scale.
Umm, how is this supposed to be read?
To be continued.