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Ariel was a bicycle, motorcycle and automobile marque manufacturer based in Bournbrook, Birmingham, England. Car production moved to Coventry in 1911. The company dates back to 1847 when Ariel made an early pneumatic-tyred wheel for horse drawn carriages. The name was revived by James Starley...

Frothy, I second that motion. Oh well, lets see how many guns I can find on my return to Westley Richards at the weekend! I hope none to be honest! Sounds like you came away with quite a collection, well done Lyn, it's always worth saving stuff if you can do it legally! Neil

WHY YOU LUCKY....................... Good job Lyn, did you come away with anything worth saving? I'd like to think there was something in there after all these years. Nice work Neil :)

Just a quick update, the final bricwork has been pulled down. There is nothing left there. I'll get some shots of what is left there on Sunday when I return to see some derelict stuff in the area.

https://www.drummonds-arch.co.uk/resources/1.htm Just to give you a little pictorial history of this job, that link shows you how the job was done. It was VERY labour intensive, VERY hot and VERY hard. Most guys worked 7 days, 12 hours in these places, and they earned next to nothing.

Oldbury/Tipton/Smethwick/West Brom were all very heavy casting areas. Much more than brass and copper use moulds, steel and lots of alloys can be used in moulds. Iron was always a fave in the old foundries. Beans would have been one of the biggest foundies around in the early 1900's, as for...

Iron casting would be your best starting point. My grandad wad a moulder in West Brom, and he working in a casting shop. On the other side, I'm a plastic moulder and I work in a similar trade to what he did all those years ago, just in better working conditions!!!:biggrin:

Good on you lyn. This place was quite a site to explore even when I got there a few months ago. Most of those shots(the main door, the staircase) I've been inside, and it was quite a buzz until the police turned up and booted us off the site!!!! Just a couple agian for you all to see it from the...

Big Gee, the Ariel factory is my next target. The majority of it has been demolished, as it was part owned and used by Boxfoldia, a carton and packaging firm. They moved to Redditch and closed the plant down. It as meant to be used for more student diggs, but it never happened. The building was...

captblack, I can name a LOAD of "listed" buildings that I've been in that are either now burned down, demolished or still rotting away.!!! The worst is probably Corngreaves hall not far from Lye. That has history back to the 1700's but is still left rotting away despite being a rather important...

There only seemed to be a small sectoin of the frontage left. Some of the rooms I was in on new years day were exposed, but the majority is now rubble. Bloody Sainsbury's!

No problem, I hope you enjoy it as much as I still do!!;)

Re: GEC Works Witton Wow, that was one huge plant! Great photo, thanks for sharing that with us!

I think this is the one you are looking for...... Here are the details....... Paperback: 146 pages Publisher: YBA Publications; 2nd Revised edition edition (May 1992) Language English ISBN-10: 095131081X ISBN-13: 978-0951310816 It is a fantastic book, and well worth the money. Amazon have...

Thanks to dollyferret for the following info from another thread: Established in 1812.William Westley RichARDS.THE FOUNDER,WAS BORN IN 1788 and he died in1865,he was responsible for a number of inventions connected with the muzzle loader. Although founded in bham,the firm was not typical of the...

Yes Ray, there are rumours flying around that the accident report book was still in there, and FULL of awful and dis-figuring incidents!!

6/10. I can't get over the fact I got the James Watt question wrong!!!!

Less and less are listings actually doing anything to prevent this happening. I can't get over how many building's I've been in are listed, then suddenly get pulled down, or burn down. The scaffolding is to prevent a forward collapse onto the road. If they pull it down from the rear of the...

I am utterly gutted to report the place is now being pulled down........... https://www.adampowell.org.uk/urbex/batt1.jpg https://www.adampowell.org.uk/urbex/batt2.jpg https://www.adampowell.org.uk/urbex/batt3.jpg Pics are not mine, they belong to Adam Powell from 28dayslater

I took a shot from the window overlooking the roof with the hopper........Rather overgrown!!! LOL! Oh, and my avatar piccy is taken in this mill!!!