Firearm Factory (Pic Heavy)

[Derelict-UK]

***PIC HEAVY***

The company acquired a superb reputation for accuracy, entirely well founded. The quality of the sleeves was such that the claim of improved grouping over some new rifles was not unwarranted. Even now, rifles refurbished in this way half a century ago will perform to a high standard, such was the quality of steel and workmanship. A tired barrel could be brought back to very useful life with a significant saving over the cost of a total replacement.

The place is a hive of history, the Vale Onslow of Firearms. It is simply an amazing factory and another lost business from what made the City world famous!

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[Derelict-UK]

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31) The only other place I have seen so many guns in such a small room is when the police parade guns captured by gangs or the stock piles of guns the IRA decommissioned!

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For my small selection of HDR images, check the following link...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39746360@N06/sets/72157624191340969/

 

[MikeB]

Pics are amazing!

 

[Griff]

I guess that's somewhere in the Gun Quarter?

 

[Derelict-UK]

I guess that's somewhere in the Gun Quarter?

nope.

 

[rsclio182]

great find, good pictures, wish i could fond some where like that near me

 

[Andy.]

Did you go in there with permission or just find an open door?

Lovely shots, exactly the sort of place I used to dream of nosing around as a boy... and still today actually.

 

[Jason_E]

Nice Urbex as ever mate! keep up the good work.

 

[Addz]

Amazing pictures, love these threads

 

[Derelict-UK]

Did you go in there with permission or just find an open door?

not quite lol, through a doss house at 8am luckily meeting no one one the way, out the back door, over a fragile roof (crawling on hands and knees) past holes in the roof and through an open window!!

 

[Rob]

Bloody awesome mate, gotta love the dedication it took to get in too!

 

[m4rkie23]

I would love to see that. Nice pics mate!

 

[AliasOmega]

Lets hope you left it all in place, as being caught with a live round on the street in the uk could see you going to jail.

 

[Gray]

How do you find places like this!?

 

[guysy]

Nice pics as always Derelict.

 

[Derelict-UK]

Lets hope you left it all in place, as being caught with a live round on the street in the uk could see you going to jail.

ALL the places I visit I don't take items, as soon as you do, you break the law, it's the fine line between committing a civil and a criminal offence.