Factories
Ougrée: the steelworks that built a country
Steel, water and rust: the plants that built a country, and were switched off.
Category · Industry & power plants
Abandoned Factories
Industry and power. The plants that built the modern world, switched off when the economics changed and left to rust in place.
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The entries
Factories in the archive
Each entry covers the history, the present condition, and the ethics of visiting a place that is often both private property and public heritage.
Factories
The Salins de Frontignan: a salt works on the French coast
A coastal industry, a handful of buildings, and a lot of rust by the Mediterranean.
Factories
Newnes: the shale-oil town swallowed by the bush
A thousand people, a refinery and a railway — all gone back to the forest in the Wolgan Valley.
