The entire factory seen from a countryside road west of the facility. Nearest possible parking place (a crossing road) was some half kilometers walk from the factory.
No fences, nearby houses or anything distrurbing around.
Doubtlessly you can see the place is abandoned. Of placement of the windows you could await three inside storeys, but in reality there was just the dirt floor and some platforms of rotting planks above it.
To our disappointment there seemed to be no smoke stack at all. Inside we found found the root of this stack, probably cut because of weak condition.
Wooden corner of the factory. To the left of it continues a wooden wing that seemed to have been the only suitable place for drying of bricks. And it isn't a very big wing.
Spike carriages were gathered at the corner of the drying wing.
There has been very little machine power in the factory. Also these carriages have been totally manpowered.
It is rust..
Condition of the wing was terminal. Back part of it had already fallen to non-enterable state.
Closer look of a wheel detached from one of the numerous carriages.
After final burns owner has needed the inside space for storing stuff. This would be the reason why this coarse mixer had been carried out.
Short reelway in the machine cemetery.
Cogwheel attached to the reelway.
On top of the annular burning kiln. Perhaps fire safety has been in mind of the factory's architect since the walls of the kiln department were all brick. A wise and surprisingly seldom seen choice at brick factories, considering commonity of destructive fires occurred at them.
The kiln is in dangerous condition. Complete rows of it's construction bricks have fallen of the capping arc. Stepping on a brick row could have had surprising effects. We didn't try, instead kept on stepping from a steel beam to the next.
These, apparently air supplement holes were all around the top of the kiln.
Inner end of the kiln had an uncovered loading way. No carriages would fit to go through this gap, so loading and unloading the kiln has been handwork.
Inside dimensions of the kiln tell that only a few thousand bricks may have been burnt at a time. There is no space for any more.
This photo fails, although attempts to, catch the unusually thick layer of ice crystallized all over the inner walls of the kiln. The layer was about 15-20 millimeters and just ice, no flood water, snow or anything else. The changing weathers from heavy frost to zero Celsius grades and unique conditions in this long, nearly isolated tunnel had created this very beautiful phenomenon displaying the great symmetricity of ice formations.
Yes, there were still brick piles in the kiln.
Inside the kiln there was a special mood. Someone else had noticed the same, and had brought small candles and placed them to different levels on the bricks. The result after lighting them would be cool without a doubt with every candle and brick edge throwing shadows to different directions of the brick crypt.