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Social premises and some other rooms else were located in this barrack.
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Windows were closed and unbroken, so no visit to the Clay Club.
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Surprise, in 2006 it not only was accessible, but totally devastated.
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At least someone had fun here.
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Reminds that we're in Turku..
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Turku repair yard seems obviously abandoned here. A big city, lots of frustration.
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Everything taken away. Some corners, like an underground pumping station found later by other explorers contained more equipment, but those were also stripped off valuable metals later.
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Small workshop.
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Hooks for name tags of tool's loaner, maybe?
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A welding hall. Perhaps not exactly large for shipbuilding, but on general scale, a spacy hall. A type of place that would be most suitable for illegal tekkno-events (do they still organise such?). Semi-forbidden location would go as a plus.
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Supervision booth above the hall, and a strange denial: use of fire forbidden. In a welding hall???
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Welding has naturally required inifinite amounts of gas and there are pipes, outlets and emergency valves around the hall.
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Gas pipes 2.
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Narrow room containing pumps and stuff.
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Some kind of mercury switches?
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Junk area in the bushes between the active factories and defunct shipyard structures.
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Conveyor for something.
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Approaching the factory. At the opposite shore stands a power plant, which dominates the whole Southern central city view. The full-rigger anchored in front of it is Suomen Joutsen, perhaps the best known ship in Finland (unless Swedish cruisers count).
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The engine factory is far in the back, and shipyard around the photographer.
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Getting closer.
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The steep hill rises just behind built shipyard area.
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Some smaller warehouse building, which has obviously also been forgotten a long time ago.
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Trees growing on concrete.
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Swedish warship observes the situation as an explorer checks out the rooftop.
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Stairs to the bushes.
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Just before the engine factory, there is one more large abandoned hall. Access from this alley.
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Boarded windows provided very little light to this workshop hall. Boardings were intact, because right behind them opens a video monitored central yard of the factory.
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You could say the lamp was a bit rusty.
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Switching room provided information regarding the use of this building. It seems that a circuit after another became cold during hard years of early 1990's.
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Last marking in the cabinets is from 1994.
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The monitoring was probably active, so we turned back here. From here on it would've been in use at the anyway.
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The tombstone of Wärtsilä explains itself, except for the date of birth in 13th century. It must refer to long traditions of shipbuilding in the region.
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