Inside the Fuse Factory

I’d been annoyed never to get inside the Fuse Factory as from the outside the gates were always locked. Quite by chance the other day I’d been walking around the area, not thinking about entering the Fuse Factory at all. I’d followed a path up a grassy hill, past some abandoned concrete structures, past lots of overgrown foliage, then onto another path down the hill. That magical path led right into the back of the Fuse Factory. To tell the truth, it wasn’t that exciting, a bunch of derelict buildings, but good to have a look around. In the one of the buildings there were hundreds of empty shampoo bottles littering the floor (above), in another room were pages and pages of yellow legal paper strewn across the floor. A mystery.

I’ve mentioned the Fuse Factory previously, the home of William Bickford’s safety fuses, which saved hundreds of miner’s lives across the globe.

Previously on Barnflakes
The Fuse Factory, Tuckingmill
Reviving Redruth (and environs)