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This was the main destination on the third day of nonstop exploration (excluding sleeping) in midsummer 2004. Hopes were high to get in, even if we could anticipate the estate would be closed well.
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It's a landmark, whether local people were with it or not. Definitely something worth saving, but on the other hand it can't be sensible to renovate an old building with huge money to something that nobody needs. Like this shows, there is quite some need for renovation and it's getting worse.
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Okay, here we are. On top of the mill there's the typical large room with multiple pipes, each leading to one channel (silo). Except that the pipes have been removed and only the " heads" with several "eyes" remain, one such right behind Raiztlin in the photo.
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Here we have even the pipes.
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The top room again.
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Limit switches of rotating "grain demultiplexer".
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SOK operated the mill for longest and are also the ones to thank for closing it. Well, in a way it is something to thank for, in a way not.
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This has been painted by night, since painting such in daylight would with about 100% certainty commiss to getting caught - the mill is like a stage, and you're the main role actor if you step on the roof.
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These modern silo and hall spaces belong to the later phases of milling. Now they're functionally detached from the mill.
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Stepping closer to the edge of the round silos and looking down.. If you don't feel uncomfortable at all, you must lack some primitive surviving instincts. It's only some 30-40 meters above ground, but high enough to produce the dizzy-effect.
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Staircase which is not the cleanest. Some windows have been badly closed.. There were no living birds around when we visited, though.
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Genuine Miag, the roller mill. It seemed to be a bit lost being the only one around in this room.
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Elevator belt would go inside a steel shaft. On this floor it was exposed and the buckets which still carried some grain were visible.
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Another "stairs" shot.
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Milling room without any original machines apart form some rusty pipes.
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Funky, we have electricity & lights!
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We switched to main staircase, which had a few locked doors that we didn't bother to even try and open. Behind them was possibly some stuff stored by the city for it's youth activity purposes (which is pretty much all that currently occupies the mill).
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Don't get too excited, there's quantity but the computers are all quite old. Nothing valuable.
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Monitors, tubes that nobody wants these days.
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Drawing and a poem in the main staircase. The youth culture project must have given birth to this piece.
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More less-conventional graffiti art.
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"Media mill" on second floor. If this still functions, it isn't very active.
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Someone's opinion regarding media mill.
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