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Before getting to the factory, this is from the house at the yard. It's a mess with rotten floors and ripped interiors.
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After many years someone had cleared a way to the former power station, which still held parts of the old masoned boiler. But only parts.
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Low pressure manometer lying somewhere in the power station, later converted to a boiler room. There was an oil boiler of local maker from 1980's.
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This eternal subject is called pipes and valves, but there's also a third element: pumps.
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Katko burner switch.
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Switch of.. hm.. UTU?
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The car hall on bottom floor has an isolated section, which must have served the repair business as an office. Corner surrounding it is full of car-related junk.
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Yes, there are also cars! Vintage models, but in weak shape.
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It seriously looks like the vehicles would've changed between 2000 and 2005 - just compare this to the picture above. And we thought this place was abandoned...
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One more car hall photo.
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Neon sign saved from weather, but not from tagging.
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Half circle windows create mood to the bottom floor.
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If the building will ever be renovated, here are some good original wooden doors to re-fit.
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This is a never-filling trashcan. Atleast almost.
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As a bit of surprise, you can still find also directly match related stuff from the building. OTK had all kinds of cooperative manufacturing, and it was probably only logical to use own matchboxes as an advertisement media for OTK stuff like roof materials, nails, timber and insurances.
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Unknown soldiers of an unknown platoon.
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This must be trace from the last times of "operation" of the match factory: they've sent finished matchsticks from Vaajakoski unit with train and.. what exactly has Santalahti factory done then?
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Good or bad, graffiti has arrived here. In 2000 there were practically no paintings, but 2005, this sight greeted us in the stairs.
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The same before new painting of walls.
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