#industrial — Modernist Delights

Overcast Lune Business Park, Lancaster, 2025

An abandoned red brick building with broken and boarded-up windows. Overgrown grass and bushes fill the foreground, along with metal gates, one of which is rusted and partly open. Rubbish and debris are visible near the building’s dark entrance.

A bright red metal roller shutter door is closed on a green corrugated metal building. The frame above the door is also red, and the ground in front has some leaves and debris. The building shows minor signs of weathering.

Having a normal one (taking a picture of a shutter on an industrial estate because the colours are pretty).

Empty light industrial unit in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, 2025

A run-down, two-story industrial building with faded green panels, large dirty windows, and a partially visible, worn sign reading Poplar Motors Ltd. The ground floor has brown brickwork and a metal roller door. The sky is partly cloudy.

Brewery, Stockport, 2025

A large red-brick brewery building labeled F. Robinson Ltd with multiple signs. The structure features a glass elevator shaft, metal tanks, a clock tower, and a gated entrance with warning and no parking signs. The sky is cloudy overhead.

The imposing Robinsons Brewery, towering over Stockport’s Lower Hillgate, complete with the modern addition of an exposed staircase – my beloved. 2025.

Windowed industrial building in Stockport, 2025

A narrow alley with cracked pavement runs between old brick industrial buildings. The right building has large, dirty glass windows and a faded “FIRST STREET” sign. Overhead wires and cloudy skies add to the worn, urban atmosphere.

Williamson Power Station, Lancaster, 2025 (again)

An old red-brick industrial building, partially demolished, stands behind metal fencing and rubble piles. Its tall chimney is intact, while the right side reveals exposed steel framework. The sky is clear blue, and debris is scattered in the foreground.

My favourite derelict power station looking resplendent in spring light 🥰

Photographer bait, Lancaster, 2025

Leaving a wee kids’ bike in front of a decaying warehouse on an industrial estate just as the sun sets behind it, to me, is like the proverbial van full of sweets. After deviating from my route back from the gym to take a photo, I’m surprised I’m not in some basement with my face on a milk carton right now.

A small purple and white child’s bicycle stands alone in front of a large, old stone industrial building with a blue metal roller door. The concrete yard is empty except for scattered debris and a puddle near the street in the foreground.

Williamson Power Station, Lancaster, 2025

Large, abandoned red-brick industrial building with tall cylindrical smokestack, surrounded by fences and overgrown grass. The sky is partly cloudy with golden sunlight breaking through. Foreground shows a cracked, empty road and construction signs near the fence.

Now derelict Williamson Power Station, Lancaster. Once used to supply power to the city’s linoleum factory, it has more recently been used for illegally storing compacted waste, which set alight in December 2023. Following the days-long fire and the operation to extinguish it, it now stands mostly empty, fire-damaged but no less immense.

More information and pictures available on the Lancaster Civic Vision website, for those interested.