I live close by! Crazy how you've been here !! Use to be car meets here every weekend, drifting and skating !! Was an awesome place!!! Its such a shame you missed the liitle door in the corner of the tower building, its a SOLID concrete staircase that takes you right to the top balcony!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
History: The factory was founded by Robert Sandford in 1874 as the Torridge Vale Dairy and Butter Factory and situated on the site of the former canal in Torrington following the introduction of the railway. For a number of years the business was steadily expanded and by 1951 was being supplied milk by around 50 local farms, peaking at about 1850 gallons of milk per day. The majority of this was produced as cream or butter and supplied to businesses as far away as London. The business continued to grow over the years, eventually being associated with Cow & Gate LTD in the early 1930s. During this time there was an emphasis on the production and output of 'home grown food' as part of the war effort, as well as the export of such goods due to the high demand for them. By the late 1940s a larger factory building was completed, equipped with more modern machinery and five large boilers and newer engines, and again in 1979 the business was expanded yet again, this time under the name of Dairy Crest Foods, Torrington. Milk churns were no longer to be used following this expansion and now all deliveries were to be in bulk. A major rebuilding programme began, with £5.3 million invested into it. This would allow the entire process to be carried out on a continuous production line, controlled by a computer, making the factory now one of the most modern of it's kind. The factory later shut in 1993 after a series of hardships following the introduction of milk quotas in 1984. Farmers had also begun to give up milk production during this time as a result of the introduced milk quotas, meaning that supply was slowly becoming more difficult for the factory. A significant number of other milk factories during this time also closed, for similar reasons, however Torrington managed to keep it's factory going for longer, due to the size of it. There were several attempts to introduce more profitable items into the milk factory, and although they were successful, the factory was seen as too far away from any major markets. Part of the factory was also severely damaged by fire in 1993, also contributing in it's eventual closure. The factory has mostly sat empty since the early 90s, and any attempts at planning applications on the land have been mostly unsuccessful, with nothing seemingly happening with the building or the land it's on. The site itself is huge and riddled with asbestos.
@@ghostmutt4684 We had a dairy crest place at Bamber bridge near Preston lancs. That was a huge place, it’s houses now but I think that shut in the mid 90s.
i remember a orange factory. it got flooded and set abandoned for 40 years before i discovered it. was even mail from the 1930s and beside the property were houses on the river that got flooded too everything was tossed about because of the high water and the orange factory basement was flooded so never went down there, lots of trees and debris and no graffiti . it was finally razed just a few years ago to make room for condos . i hope another flood wipes out the condos be cool to explore them
This is my home town Great Torrington in North Devon I can't believe you came down and explored it!! You are correct they started demolishing it but its unsafe as the asbestos that's in it but they are trying to get it knocked down as people keep starting fires and it's unsafe. Also the art work changes every week!!! You are so right it is like walking through an art gallery
The graffiti alone makes this place worth a visit. All that art is like new life for the crumbling, forgotten place. I like tagging when its artistic and not crude. You hit a jackpot for sure in that place. Very talented people left their mark. Great vid
The skate ramp construction and some of that graffiti are really impressive. You're obviously loving the big open space after the recent cave shows. A really good find lads.
This really reminds me of and abandoned power station near me. It has giant empty concrete rooms and wide open spaces and classrooms and labs. The place is so dangerous, There has been a couple deaths there and a big fire or two, It took 2-3 explores to fully take in the whole place, its mind blowing being in there Wangi Wangi power station NSW Australia is the place
Fun fact, the dinosaur is called a crynosaur. It is widely believed to have cried actual milk and, as such, was likely used as the milk factory's mascot. The more you know.
NO GUYS YOUR IN DEVON! lol I live 3 miles from the factory, I bet you don't mention the village used to be a leper colony, if you had turned around at the beginning there's a small odd museum opposite.
My Tuesday is...up early to drop a load in the loo as the coffee brews. Then it's back to bed with a fresh cup of Joe and a little wakey bakey 420 time...as I fire up the telly and get my favorite UK UA-camrs 🇬🇧 on to make my morning complete.
Love these old industrial sites! Even with how trashed it is, it's awesome to see all the architecture and there was some really good artwork. Wish I could travel further to see places like this, I could watch a 2 hour video. Great coverage guys!
Great video guys. Outside Paris there’s a place like this where the townhall rents rooms to normal people with the passion for art and music. All the have to do is pay for the electricity they use. This is a great way to keep alive old industrial buildings. I would fight to a have a spot inside.
Hi HoE! 👋🐈 Amazing art! Loved that almost minute in, Al utters (snicker) about smells of milk and much later in real time, Al remarks about it smells of milk. Why that is laughable...it is so Al. Definitely prefer this type of material over the caves, yet versatility is the key...it still smells of milk tho. Cyber huggggs. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🐈
SHEEEESH Love abandos covered in graffitti! Agreed, deffo should be more abandos like this. Open free for a wander and a hangout, make a cool art space. HARD APPROVE Smashing find
This was an awesome place... Explored it a few times as relatively local to me. But it is North Devon not Cornwall for the record.. Has been demolished now after them talking about doing it for 20 plus years... As mentioned you did unfortunately miss a small door leading to a concrete staircase leading you to the top of that tall building. Looked insane from up there i can assure you..
Bro's I love this. I smoked a half pound of weed and slurped 2Lt of South African Beer and enjoy every moment. Keep up the good work. Love from South Africa in the Limpopo area, where the Lions walk free
Nice to see you're exploring in the civilised south again 😚 Some say, the Japanese think the Welsh smell of Lamb (not sure which part they're sniffing) and the Scottish smell of Heroin.
Great explore guys. Norton @ 20:25 you ask about the graffiti, good or bad? A lot of it is just shite tagging, but the art stuff is awesome spesh the head you walk past as you ask it.
Roy chubby brown is a legend.you have got to go see 1 of his live shows you boys would be crying in laughter. There was some awesome graffiti in them buildings wish you would show more of it.that BMW on the wall was a work of art
It's absolutely epic !! There's not many places like that still in the UK still around. Its absolutely solid not like some abandoned places. I'd expect Jason Stathom to fly around corner picking someone kidnapped and transporting them. Even a Jean Claude Van Damme movie... you'd expect abit partco from Jackie Chann. My son would love it ! Tony flipping Hawks should have these buildings around the world. I salute the guys who did the work making the ramps and scaffold pipes and even the art work graffiti is brilliant. They should be places for kids to excel in skateboarding, bmxing and partco (not for kids wrapped in Cotton wool).Cool find guys 👌
I live close by! Crazy how you've been here !! Use to be car meets here every weekend, drifting and skating !! Was an awesome place!!! Its such a shame you missed the liitle door in the corner of the tower building, its a SOLID concrete staircase that takes you right to the top balcony!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
History:
The factory was founded by Robert Sandford in 1874 as the Torridge Vale Dairy and Butter Factory and situated on the site of the former canal in Torrington following the introduction of the railway. For a number of years the business was steadily expanded and by 1951 was being supplied milk by around 50 local farms, peaking at about 1850 gallons of milk per day. The majority of this was produced as cream or butter and supplied to businesses as far away as London. The business continued to grow over the years, eventually being associated with Cow & Gate LTD in the early 1930s. During this time there was an emphasis on the production and output of 'home grown food' as part of the war effort, as well as the export of such goods due to the high demand for them. By the late 1940s a larger factory building was completed, equipped with more modern machinery and five large boilers and newer engines, and again in 1979 the business was expanded yet again, this time under the name of Dairy Crest Foods, Torrington. Milk churns were no longer to be used following this expansion and now all deliveries were to be in bulk. A major rebuilding programme began, with £5.3 million invested into it. This would allow the entire process to be carried out on a continuous production line, controlled by a computer, making the factory now one of the most modern of it's kind.
The factory later shut in 1993 after a series of hardships following the introduction of milk quotas in 1984. Farmers had also begun to give up milk production during this time as a result of the introduced milk quotas, meaning that supply was slowly becoming more difficult for the factory. A significant number of other milk factories during this time also closed, for similar reasons, however Torrington managed to keep it's factory going for longer, due to the size of it. There were several attempts to introduce more profitable items into the milk factory, and although they were successful, the factory was seen as too far away from any major markets. Part of the factory was also severely damaged by fire in 1993, also contributing in it's eventual closure.
The factory has mostly sat empty since the early 90s, and any attempts at planning applications on the land have been mostly unsuccessful, with nothing seemingly happening with the building or the land it's on. The site itself is huge and riddled with asbestos.
Thanks for the detailwd history!
@@upthehoe No problem lads!
@@ghostmutt4684 We had a dairy crest place at Bamber bridge near Preston lancs. That was a huge place, it’s houses now but I think that shut in the mid 90s.
If our old factories here were as artist driven as this, it'd be a tourist attraction! Wow.
Have a nice day friends
Morning Kim 👍
Kimberly
You too Kim
Your suppose to be in a bad way 🤣🤣🤣
Cheers kim
i remember a orange factory. it got flooded and set abandoned for 40 years before i discovered it. was even mail from the 1930s and beside the property were houses on the river that got flooded too everything was tossed about because of the high water and the orange factory basement was flooded so never went down there, lots of trees and debris and no graffiti . it was finally razed just a few years ago to make room for condos . i hope another flood wipes out the condos be cool to explore them
This is my home town Great Torrington in North Devon I can't believe you came down and explored it!! You are correct they started demolishing it but its unsafe as the asbestos that's in it but they are trying to get it knocked down as people keep starting fires and it's unsafe. Also the art work changes every week!!! You are so right it is like walking through an art gallery
What part of the building have they started demolishing ?
@@fastemx back half moving forwards now half the buildings gone
There's a town near me and I swear down that they have a disused mine with uncontacted teletubbies living at the bottom
So that's where they dumped them
The graffiti alone makes this place worth a visit. All that art is like new life for the crumbling, forgotten place. I like tagging when its artistic and not crude. You hit a jackpot for sure in that place. Very talented people left their mark. Great vid
Love the intro narration. Really adds an awsome element. This channel is god teir
Let's get this place back in business
The skate ramp construction and some of that graffiti are really impressive.
You're obviously loving the big open space after the recent cave shows. A really good find lads.
Bloody lovely
This really reminds me of and abandoned power station near me. It has giant empty concrete rooms and wide open spaces and classrooms and labs.
The place is so dangerous, There has been a couple deaths there and a big fire or two, It took 2-3 explores to fully take in the whole place, its mind blowing being in there
Wangi Wangi power station NSW Australia is the place
Dneib or Petrashenko ?
Fun fact, the dinosaur is called a crynosaur. It is widely believed to have cried actual milk and, as such, was likely used as the milk factory's mascot. The more you know.
NO GUYS YOUR IN DEVON! lol I live 3 miles from the factory, I bet you don't mention the village used to be a leper colony, if you had turned around at the beginning there's a small odd museum opposite.
Wow no way, that makes this even more interesting
That narrator was class lads, keep it up.
My Tuesday is...up early to drop a load in the loo as the coffee brews. Then it's back to bed with a fresh cup of Joe and a little wakey bakey 420 time...as I fire up the telly and get my favorite UK UA-camrs 🇬🇧 on to make my morning complete.
I was glad to see at 1:27 into the video, Norton is still giving his old fella a touch up.
Love these old industrial sites! Even with how trashed it is, it's awesome to see all the architecture and there was some really good artwork. Wish I could travel further to see places like this, I could watch a 2 hour video. Great coverage guys!
That's a pretty perfect location for a skate hangout. It looks like what you'd see in a movie.
This is local to me, there is a few DIY parks in there
The only good thing about Tuesdays 👍👍
Great video guys.
Outside Paris there’s a place like this where the townhall rents rooms to normal people with the passion for art and music. All the have to do is pay for the electricity they use.
This is a great way to keep alive old industrial buildings. I would fight to a have a spot inside.
Hi HoE! 👋🐈 Amazing art! Loved that almost minute in, Al utters (snicker) about smells of milk and much later in real time, Al remarks about it smells of milk. Why that is laughable...it is so Al.
Definitely prefer this type of material over the caves, yet versatility is the key...it still smells of milk tho.
Cyber huggggs. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🐈
This looks absolutely amazing, would love to have a mooch round there. Top quality video.
Edit: 7:20 I believe they are tracks from a mini digger
This place looked so cool I luv watching the 3 amigos
nice find boys hope they preserve some of the older buildings
SHEEEESH
Love abandos covered in graffitti!
Agreed, deffo should be more abandos like this. Open free for a wander and a hangout, make a cool art space.
HARD APPROVE
Smashing find
I miss the dungarees tbh
Wait till winter, they will return
Great video guys, couldn't believe how massive that company was. Really enjoy watching you. Take care.
This was an awesome place... Explored it a few times as relatively local to me. But it is North Devon not Cornwall for the record.. Has been demolished now after them talking about doing it for 20 plus years... As mentioned you did unfortunately miss a small door leading to a concrete staircase leading you to the top of that tall building. Looked insane from up there i can assure you..
Bro's I love this.
I smoked a half pound of weed and slurped 2Lt of South African Beer and enjoy every moment.
Keep up the good work.
Love from South Africa in the Limpopo area, where the Lions walk free
Commentary on this is perfect!
Oh and the artwork there is motivational and sic!
That split face at the end was killer!
Cheers ✌️🇺🇲
Its like a building youd see in an old Carry on film.
The old merging with the new. Some of that Graffiti was amazing let alone the site itself. And Roy Chubby Brown to top it all off 🤣🤣🤣
Looks sick! Also dying at the Roy Chubby Brown VHS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No way were the cows that tall
Hello from Kansas my man! Love the channel definitely binge watching!
Hi fella s i almost missed my favorite guys in the whole wide world.
Great video guys and such a great find! That place is absolutely massive! #HellOnEarthTuesdays 😁
The DIY skatepark is killer...🍻
Love you boys!
You guys never stop surprising us 🤯 Absolutely another top video keep up the great work 👍 👏
Voice intro! Drone shot! Skatepark! Cool explore lads.
It was nice to see that old building Have a great week guys
Fireman 🔥🔥🔥
You are welcome sunshine
Love a good bit of graff....and some industrial stuff too.....great one again boys :) Got a massive thumbs up from me :D
I'm amazed you get Sam Elliott to do your intros. Must cost you a fortune! 🤠
Loving the ramp builds inside there, you could repurpose the whole place as a skate park/graffiti gallery/night club.😎👍
Some of the graffiti in already gutted rough industrial really adds to it, what I don't like is the excessive smashing of windows and simple tagging
Reminds me of an old factory I skated in years ago in Grantham, some guys had built a 2 floor skate park. Wonder if it's still there
top tier art in that place!
Another class video 👌 be safe and keep them coming
Nice to see you're exploring in the civilised south again 😚 Some say, the Japanese think the Welsh smell of Lamb (not sure which part they're sniffing) and the Scottish smell of Heroin.
They also think the english smell of Tories.
@@mattymcl9410 and low intelligence
Cheeky g##🏴
you gained a 100 points towards the entrance of hell.
@@pauljones5559 Is that you vicar?
That is great Torrington milk Factory north Devon
How did you get Clint Eastwood to narrate? Wow!
He owes us big time
Plz don't die. I love you guys. 🥰
Awesome explore today dude’s 👍
Way better than the boring mine videos
Wow, You were only a few miles away from me I'd love to have met you and bought you all a pint, hope you went to the coast.
I live just up the road from the old milk factory.
it begs the question, where's the other track? and how did the mini digger, or whatever it was get out of the building
By Heckers our kid I do like watching thy channel. The do some great exploring and videos are cracking. 🇬🇧😉🍺🍄
Great explore guys. Norton @ 20:25 you ask about the graffiti, good or bad? A lot of it is just shite tagging, but the art stuff is awesome spesh the head you walk past as you ask it.
Another banger boys. keep up the good work
Thanks Lee
got a feeling norton wasnt really in to this place, shame. anyway, great video lads.
Reminds me of canon brewery. Trashed but awesome! Wicked find, never seen this place before
100%... ahh the good old days
Awesome explore. Need to get your EXPEDITION HALF-ZIP FLEECE back in stock
That huge door is like a ghost train door lol
No way! This is a relatively local spot to myself, great little spot!
Well you milked that one with the jokes, on form as usual, looking forward to the next explores.
Awesome video guys!!
I agree with llyod that was a really nice sound
Ohhhhh my......the graffiti is gorgeous. Such talent 👏 👌.
Sick boys!!! Love the narration at the start too 😊
Roy chubby brown is a legend.you have got to go see 1 of his live shows you boys would be crying in laughter. There was some awesome graffiti in them buildings wish you would show more of it.that BMW on the wall was a work of art
The adventures of Norton, Lloyd and the other one!
Lovely stuff
When you said its an abandoned milk factory i thought you were talking about Al's mum...
Another good video and interesting building 👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hello, loving your dry humour, you guys are funny, very entertaining 💚💚💚💚🇦🇺🇦🇺
Love you guys
It's absolutely epic !! There's not many places like that still in the UK still around. Its absolutely solid not like some abandoned places. I'd expect Jason Stathom to fly around corner picking someone kidnapped and transporting them. Even a Jean Claude Van Damme movie... you'd expect abit partco from Jackie Chann. My son would love it ! Tony flipping Hawks should have these buildings around the world. I salute the guys who did the work making the ramps and scaffold pipes and even the art work graffiti is brilliant. They should be places for kids to excel in skateboarding, bmxing and partco (not for kids wrapped in Cotton wool).Cool find guys 👌
Partco = parkour? (as in human movement between places efficiently/creatively, with jumps, flips etc.)
@@Will-kt5jk yup !!
I know Ed Scott (parkour UA-camr) lives in Devon, not sure how far from this, or if he’s filmed there before.
@@Will-kt5jk I don't know of him but my son probably does. Not surprised it's ideal 👌
Loved the intro......youre all barking lol but loves you all......
Ps I did worry for you
I'm pretty sure you're in Devon🤣torrington to be exact
Great 13th Warrior quote!!!
❤ that fcking movie
"There are more, little brother"
1:39 how ironic you called that window art decor when the graffiti piece on the window says decor
Another brilliant episode 👏 🤗 😎 🤠
Great artwork hope someone went on to great things i think it was pretty cool 😎 👍 stuff
Impressive grafitti in that place
Top Job Chaps 🤘
I agree that it looks like Rapture from Bioshock! Love that game 🙃
That's changed since I went back in 2014 ish. Was the London cab still there? Liking the art work, not so keen on the random tags. 😊👌
and work was done with pride and respected and not scrimpted on
my home town is near there that would taddiport
There's a abounded train station next door too
you know someone need to buys this abandoned building and make this into a camp for young people to have a good experience
Milk factory?! 80% chance of death. You guys did well to survive.
lol
People jumped off that roof..
Excellent video I fucking love you guys, the last basketball court comment really got me good xD
Sad you couldn't get on the roof though
Did you go in the tunnels that run beneath the whole building