Tales of the Urban Explorer: Arla Foods

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It was not my first visit to 'Arla Foods'. Two years ago, @dizzydiscovery, @lpff, and I had walked down the same adjoining street and bottled it.

@lpff was all for balancing on a wall with a drop of fifteen feet to the left. We had thought better. @lpff had gone back and soloed it later, letting us know the highlights were two skeletal dead foxes inside.

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So why was it we were back and thinking about going back in there to inhale decaying fox fumes?

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This was to be one of several collaborations with @lpff, the Yorkshire Facebook explorer that everyone loves to hate. Regardless of his attitude and supposed swagger I have always gelled with him and found him very knowledgeable.

He doesn’t smash places up, and he doesn’t steal things. Those are important to me.

How things change in just two years. The impenetrable fence was gone, replaced by an ineffective gate with a generous gap at the bottom. I could smell those foxes from here…, Oooh… the aroma.

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Arla Foods originated from Scandinavia and have a decent-sized dairy portfolio, including that over-priced Cravendale Milk that @bingbabe is a little partial to.

They have also abandoned at least one of their premises in central Leeds. Fortunately, it was not shit weather which would have meant soggy clothes, and the three of us were on the other side of the gate within seconds. I have crawled under skinnier gates than this.

"There was a hole in the fence over there", @lpff was pointing to what looked like a derelict wasteland, full of loose bricks, used condoms blowing around in the wind, with suspicious-looking white liquid flying out of them at all angles.


these Leeds ladies must be something else, that or there had recently been a gang-bang made up of recently released convicts filled to the brim

The hole was indeed still there, and we found ourselves a little closer to ‘Arla Foods’.

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…’a highly suspicious @anidiotexplores checks out a possible access point’

It didn’t take long, and after some grunting and climbing through a window, we were in and could start enjoying the sights and amenities of ‘Arla Foods’.

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I was not expecting much. If the foxes were still hanging around somewhere it would have stunk. I was seeing dark long corridors with little in sight.

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Is it some kind of electronic payment system?

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This is the place to visit for all your replacement bulb needs. There was quite a selection, and almost enough to compete with the local supermarkets.

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What is all that shit-looking stuff? I can understand letting loose on the radiator in a troublesome moment, but up there…, like how?

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The vending machine was a welcome sight for all of us; some coffee with Cravendale Milk topping it up? The bastard didn't work of course, regardless of sticking coins in.

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Leeds doesn’t do too badly compared to the rest of them. Seems unfair they closed it down, comparatively speaking.

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Arla Foods’ comprised of many empty rooms just like this one. One covers them all.

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There was to be no ‘Out of Bounds’. We searched high and low for anything of interest.

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I am getting quite the collection of these broken glass photographs. Add a little colour and they look even better.

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It looks in bad shape but the flooring was solid. As usual, the pigeons had invaded.

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Look at the size of that beast; it must have cost a fortune once. Yet, photocopiers are one of the most left behind items I can see.

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I tell you, someone had some terrible gastro issues. So much that this poor bloke could have died of Dysentery or some other terrible tropical disease while emptying his bowels all over the insides of ‘Arla Foods’.

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A circuit board entwined with the skeletal remains of some poor bird.

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I understand… Tanjot.

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Jeez, now it's the coffee machine. I was hoping we were not going to encounter the being that did all this. Please… be somewhere else before dying.

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Was there something down here? I was hoping for a little more.

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It looked like the grand entrance to 'Arla Foods'., except they had tried to cordon it off with police tape.

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Another dark corridor, probably with little at the end.

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A Cryoscope is an advanced system for milk analysis. That fits, but why leave ‘advanced machinery’ behind? Is the plastic bottle also part of the ‘advanced’ features?

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It’s a dye and a weak acid. I always thought that Cravendale Milk looked a little too white. Now I know.

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'Arla Foods' was full of corpses, but no fox ones or diarrhea-drenched humans.

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Come on now, there are no barriers for Urban Explorers. I might have jumped over it if there was anything worth looking at beyond.

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So this was formally the Head Office?

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Down there the building took a turn for the worse. The roof had partially collapsed making everything look much derpier. At this point, we had seen all and headed outside.

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I have been reliably informed this building has now been demolished. It's getting to be a habit that between my visits and write-up, things disappear. It's not one I will miss.

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You definitely like finding abandoned buildings 😂

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Yeah, it's my niche here. You have to find one.. right?! 😃

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Yeap. The weird think is that they are leaving valuable things inside.

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I thought I'd look just for the hell of it. It never crosses my mind to take things. If it worked.., it has some value for sure!

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For heaven's sake... Reading this is a laugh from beginning to end 😂... Thanks as always for sharing my witty friend...

!PIZZA

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LOL, thanks, it's getting harder on the imagination.. not to repeat myself 😄

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We still have copy machines that big. You'd be shocked at how many copies teachers make on a daily basis. We pretty much have to pay the company to take them when we upgrade. That's how quickly the models change and how little the vendor you probably rented it from wants to service old equipment.

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I figured nobody could be bothered carrying such a massive item.., so just leave it be!

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in Scotland the law was (not sure if it's changed in the last decade) that if you maintained a property for 12 years without someone else exercising ownership rights, then you could claim it.

if I knew I'd be somewhere for 12 years, it'd be worth finding a site and just start maintaining it.

though a whole corporate location may be a bit on the large side

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in Scotland the law was (not sure if it's changed in the last decade) that if you maintained a property for 12 years without someone else exercising ownership rights, then you could claim it.

I am not sure about Scottish laws. I do know there is no trespass law in Scotland.

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I think the size of copy machines has not got much more smaller throughout the years :)

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Hello :)

Been a while but you've been in my thoughts. Honest! And I came to find you. As I do.

Busy season here! Hope you had a good one.

This one is spooky as f*ck, huh? 👀

I can't quite place why. Perhaps it's the Walking Dead and all that deserted real estate...

So copier machines are the most abandoned. I bet they're rented then and humans can't be bothered to return them. :/ That is, indeed, a monster!

It's beautifully photographed, btw. Really artistic! Something new is happening here... 👏

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There was 3 of us, so not spooky though it might look that way. There's usually some verbal banter going on inside or @anidiotexplores singing.

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I can only imagine the banter :D

Would love to be a fly. But not one on a dead fox thanks!

I mean the footage you got. Very atmospheric. Well filmed! 👏👍

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When I view these posts I think of all the hours I've wasted in the places I have worked. Realising that I spent more time there than I did in my own house on weekdays.

For many workers, it would have been a second home.

Thanks for another peek into these abandoned places.

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Plenty more to come, just need to the time to write them up. It takes a while for just one.

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Wow, the stairs to the bottom gave me a bit of a scare, lol :D

The coffee machine with Cravendale Milk looks tempting, I would have put my coins in it too!

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This one needed to be demolished it is not like the beautiful old ones that you explored in the past. I hope they can recycle the bricks.

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Some serious bird issues in this place, is there a stash of laxatives in the corner or something? They seem to be feeding on that 😂

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I bet you have some adventures packed away in n neat little bag one day. You'll be able to share some nice ghost stories one day.. All you have to do is add ghosts to the empty halls you've travelled through

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Bird skeletons, litter, poops, it all make a good carnage for sure. This trip surely is one of the most memorable one. Did you notice those skeletal corpses were animating? maybe

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No wonder cravendale has a long shelf life,

Don't ya just hate all those corporate virtue signalling little slogans. People go to work to earn money, not for the bullshit love of the company

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People go to work to earn money, not for the bullshit love of the company

Yes, we live in a slave society, one that is accepted. Doesn't mean its good.

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nope not good at all. just drones serving the queen bee.

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Not quite as trashed as I thought it would have been ! Some big machines left behind there !

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