Being on the sawmill area outside working hours is forbidden, the sign says. Too bad I don’t believe in signs. There was a huge field next to the sawmill. On the other side of the field were several storage buildings. The storage buildings were just metal sheds. There was not much to see here. ThereContinue reading “Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part III”
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Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part II
So we are back in the production area again. The machinery used in sawing the logs was still in place. This is the part of the building made out of concrete seen through the break room windows. It turned out to be some kind of a storage. Now that on the floor is most likelyContinue reading “Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part II”
Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part I
On my earlier tours I had spotted a rather large sawmill, which didn’t have any lumber piles on its yard. Instead the yard was slowly turning into a forest. I didn’t have time to go check out the place back then, but as my tour of all Finnish municipalities took me to the neighbouring oneContinue reading “Cut Short By Bankrupcy Part I”
The Day the Chimney Fell
The newspaper said that the battle was over. The forest giant owning the old Martinniemi sawmill’s power station was given permission to demolish it along with the huge chimney, which had been the landmark of the village for close to a hundred years. I found the place in 2011, photographed there in 2014 and visitedContinue reading “The Day the Chimney Fell”
Bored on a Summer Evening
Almost two years had passed since my last explorations in abandoned buildings. There were two main reasons for that. The first one was that I had no time. I studied two degrees and worked three jobs. The second reason was, that there was nothing new to explore in my home town. I had already visitedContinue reading “Bored on a Summer Evening”
A Grand Piece of Sawdusty History Part I
In the early 20th century a local railway station manager founded a sawmill in an island in front of a village called Martinniemi some 30 kilometers from the city of Oulu. After years of financial problems, a bancrupcy and several ownership changes, the sawmill got new owners, a fresh start and an expansion. In theContinue reading “A Grand Piece of Sawdusty History Part I”