#warehouse — Modernist Delights

Diespeker Wharf, Islington, London, 2025

A three-storey brick building with DIESPEKER CO LTD painted in large white letters, featuring arched windows, a main entrance with glass doors, and greenery in front. The sky is partly cloudy, and a modern building adjoins it on the right.

Victorian (so much for the delights being modernist) former timber mill & terrazzo and marble manufacturing warehouse.

48-56 Orsman Road, Hackney, London, 2025

A large, white and brown industrial building with many grid-like windows stands beside a modern brown building. Trees and bushes are in the foreground, and metal stairs run up the building’s side. The sky is clear and blue.

As far as I can tell, this was formerly a warehouse for the British Museum, but it doesn’t appear to have any current use. It would make beautiful, expensive flats with all those windows.

Trio of garages, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, 2025

A building with three large metal roller doors—grey, green, and brown—set in a weathered façade. Brick walls frame the sides, and a wet street is in front. The sky is clear, and two small “No Parking” signs are visible on either side of the green door.

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).

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.