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There's a certain irony that their expertise was actually metal working.....
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8th March 2017, 09:51 AM #17
Wadkin Factory
If I may take the liberty of adding more to this story, with material mostly half-inched from other websites...
The Green Lane, Leicester, factory demolition was well underway when Wallace went back in January of this year.
Wadkin Leicester 1.jpg Wadkin Leicester 3.jpg Wadkin Leicester 4.jpg
By February, parts of the site were looking like this...
Wadkin 20.jpg Wadkin 19.jpg
...and the dozers were even hanging around the street frontage (I believe part of the facade is to saved on site - which is to be a housing estate).
Wadkin 17d.jpg
Cheers, Vann.
(more to come when I get the time)Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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8th March 2017, 09:30 PM #18
The Site
The Green Lane site comprised a number of buildings...
Wadkin 12.jpgWadkin13.jpg I'm not sure when these aerial photographs were taken.
Built up over a number of years from 1922 to 1955.
WadkinLeicesterPlan.jpg
Cheers, Vann,Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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9th March 2017, 06:40 PM #19
Wadkin Green Lane Works, Leicester - RIP
If we take a step back and have another look at the factory floor...
Wadkin Leicester 3.jpg ...we see fresh earth.
Edit: someone on CWW suggested that was concrete, Mark (wallace) suggested bitumen. Whatever it is, it's recently been uncovered.
Until recently (before the bulldozers moved in) it looked like this (not necessarily the same part of the factory) - paved floor.
Wadin 10.jpg
Going back again to the recent photos of the factory floor, in the background is a pile of paving blocks.
Wadkin Leicester 4.jpg
The floor of the Wadkin factory was paved in wooden blocks - each ~7" x ~3" x ~3 3/4" thick.
Wadkin 11.jpg
How do I know that? Well when he heard the demolition was commencing Jack (jgforsberg) in Canada, organised for a couple of square feet of flooring blocks to be collected and sent to Canada for his "Wadkin Temple" (his mostly Wadkin workshop). They came from the 1936 extension. At the same time he arranged for some extra blocks to be sent to various "Waddies" (Wadkin nutcases) around the world. Mine arrived a month ago .
Wadkin15.jpg
They stink of creosote - after all these years (maybe they were treated regularly?).
So if you're visiting a mate's workshop and you smell creosote, look out for a 7" x 3" block of blackened wood. You could be in extreme danger - your mate could turn into a Wadkin Blockhead at the full moon.
My thanks to Jack for thinking of us, and to Richard Findley who did most of the legwork in Leicester. Also to the various people whose photographs I have half-inched from the web.
Wadkin Green Lane Works - Leicester, England - RIP.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .
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9th March 2017, 08:07 PM #20
Nice Vann Ive still got to collect my one from the Melbourne delivery .
Has there been any mention of what these were laid onto ? Id like to know how its done .
Rob
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9th March 2017, 09:11 PM #21
What a great story. Wonderful to see that there are some pieces of Wakinitis that have spread through the world. More power to you.
There ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk!!
Tom Waits
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9th March 2017, 09:12 PM #22
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