Around Stanton Iron works

I have often driven through the old Stanton Ironworks on my way to or from Ilkeston and admired its old unused buildings. these buildings always looked great in the evening sun. Two buildings in particular, the Exhibition Building and a very big rectangular building with lots of small (broken in a lot of cases) windows.


I want to revisit this shoot, feedback suggests that i could have been lower and further back.


i have had some trouble finding any information about the Exhibition Building having search high and low i discovered an old photograph (below) showing school boys coming out of the entrance with a small caption below it, suggesting it was an old cinema! It looks like it was used as a training building and a place where people came to have a look at what went off in the iron works.


The other building, i believe was used by NTM (Nottingham Tobacco Machinery) who now occupy a building across the road. I could be wrong of course! the internal shot here is through one of the broken windows, i am going to try and gain official entry to this building as i think the morning sun would produce some fantastic effects through its many holes!
Production at Stanton Ironworks in Ilkeston drew to a close when the last pipe was cast on May 24, 2007. The last of the 185 production workers at the pipe-making factory walked out of the gates for the final time.