The entrance to the basement. Back in 2010 I wasn’t alone in here and explored this area. There was a dressing room and a washing room and access to other parts of the basement.
The probable thing is, that workers entered through this door in the morning, changed into work gear and then went to their own sections through the basement. After the day ended, they came back through the dressing room, changed back to civilians and went home.
This time I was alone. So no basement for me.
There are two more sections in the main building to explore. One is the ground floor of the taller section of the building, which is accessible from the door straight ahead. The other one is the middle part of the low wing. The entrance can’t be seen from here.
The low wing is entered through massive cold rooms. they had thick metal doors and I was a bit afraid of being left prisoner.
Some of the rooms were so full that they couldn’t be entered. It looks like this one is filled with windows. It isn’t the first room with them, nor is it the last.
Slowly I found my way through all the debris to the front of the building. The tower with the stairs to the upper floors is up ahead in the left corner.
This is the front of the building. There’s a loading dock behind the wall to the left. Old photos from the place I’ve found on a local facebook group indicate, that it isn’t an original feature of the building. The windows, doors and the dock are a later addition.
The items found in this area are once again pretty random. But it is about to get more random pretty soon. Not quite yet.
One of my favorite wooden TV sets. I would really like to purchase one of these and turn it into a storage for my vintage whisky bottles. I will have to wait until I’m rich and famous and can afford a bigger apartment.
Olc couches and bus seats. There had even been a couple of old buses standing in the yard, but as the authorities told the owner to clean up the place, he took them away.
There were two small rooms on the side of the building facing the road. Unfortunately they were inaccessible.
And finally the greatest randomness of the entire building. This is what I call the room of requirement, as I imagined the room in the Harry Potter books to be like this when the fire started. Back in 2010 there were two bikes to the middle of the picture. I guess someone in the village has a new bike now.
In this room you could find literally anything. Like the Children’s Christmas Cassette seen there.
Two fuse panels. One is unlabeled, the other one has the name of the food wholesale company on it. This suggests, that perhaps there were several actors occupying the space after the abattoir closed.
Again there were two small rooms in the far end of the room of requirement. Getting there was a bit difficult.
At this point a group of people came to the area. They went upstairs and began smashing things. I sent my friend my location in case something would happen to me.
In addition to the Children’s Christmas Cassette, there were also several chidren’s books here.
Another stairway to the basement. I still didn’t feel like going there.
We’ll continue with the room of requirement in the following post.
I understand your distaste for basements, yet I’ve always been captivated by them. Their typically spacious layouts and housing of the crucial mechanical systems that keep a building operational fascinate me. Once, during my exploration of a deserted high school, I stumbled upon the mechanical room in the basement and was awestruck by a massive furnace, as large as a delivery truck. Regrettably, I missed the opportunity to photograph it.
Attics are cool as well, in my opinion. 🙂
It seems basements there are different than here. Usually they aren’t very spacious. They are made up of narrow corridors, low ceilings and small rooms just big enough to fit the crucial systems, which the buildings need.
But attics are a treasure! And sometimes you can find a treasure there!