L&H Polymers LTD. - Northampton

L&H Polymers is located in Great Billing, Northampton adjacent to the Great billing garden centre, The factory was once a large busy place of work which developed the flooring for the Northampton bus station as well as some of the flooring in the London Underground as well as the Tokyo Underground in Japan. The business has now closed and what's left of the factory has been left to rot and decay. All of the floor's inside are damn and moss has began to grow from the stone floor. Most of the roof has fell through and all doors have been removed.

The factory has a heavy amount of good quality graffiti pieces inside and also has a very dark and cold feel around the whole place, The building has a very large amount of asbestos inside so caution has to be taken if you are thinking about visiting the site, there is also traces of factory waste in some areas of the factory which should be approached with extreme caution as they could possibly be toxic. The building itself is heavily guarded by 24/7 security, there is a cabin at the front of the site which has a permanent guard on site.
This photo above is of the main factory area, there is still some factory equipment left at the complex and a huge boiler of some sort left in the centre of the factory. When in this area I recommend wearing a dust-mask or some sort of respiratory device to keep your airway clear of any chemical of substance that may still be floating around as this room had a lot of factory waste inside.
The office and kitchen area still remain but are vandalized and there is not much that remain, this is the only piece of notable graffiti in the office area that I have seen, apart from that there was not much else to see, the corridor had a lot of dirt and mess on the walkway where floor from the second floor had partly fell through.

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Northampton Cattle Market - Brackmills - Northampton (DEMOLISHED)

Operators of the Northampton Cattle Market say the market at Brackmills has been losing thousands of pounds a month since reopening in February 2002 after the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Local farmers mounted a campaign to raise the £2m needed to buy the market and run it themselves. But, managing director of Northamptonshire Auctions plc Keith Rose said: "It's just that this market cannot operate with these overheads - we've got to close."

The livestock market shut on 31st October 2002, and reopen the next day in Market Harborough.


Since the closure in 2002, The Cattle Market has became a huge hotspot for graffiti artists, from a distance you would not even realize that the building is abandoned, however once inside the calf sale ring you understand how long it has been left for. We went on from the Sale ring into the auction room, however inside the building has no sign of art or graffiti, but instead minor fire damage, general damage and minor drug use. One room has a larger scale of fire damage to walls and celings however is still accessable. Rooms include, the main auction room, cafe, animal storage room for livestock and other storage rooms, the building is all on ground floor level and does not have any other floors or basement.

The building is well worth a visit if you enjoy seeing proper graffiti art and old agricultural history. Like always do take care when visiting sites as vandals and junkies do tend to use these sites for other reasons, this site does have signs of possible parties that have gone on as one room is absolutely full of cans of beer and cider, there is also a huge industrial skip full of alcohol etc.

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Street-Art and Demolition - Dublin City

When arriving In Dublin City I caught an air-coach to O'Connell street In the heart of Dublin City, there was heavy amounts of graffiti but of a poor quality. It was mainly just tags and scrolls. However I then saw something allot more interesting, Buildings that were left abandoned In Dublin City were not left to sit and rot but instead simply torn off the street as you can see above. This was not rare to see in the city, on each street (especially the older ones) you should expect to see a vacant lot similar to this. When I arrived In Dublin city I had a closer look around and still only saw graffiti artist tags of poor quality, most of them had used metal paint on stone or wood surface which made it look even worse. But as I walked down s

ome of the Dublin backstreets and also out towards the edge of Dublin City another style of art seemed to emerge. Stencil art can be found everywhere in the city, and some of it is brilliant.

Lots of stencil art can be found both In and around the city however you do need to keep your eyes peeled because it will hideaway from your eye, also you might want to check out some of the side streets and alley ways to see some of the larger stencils. All of the stencils are not only just for decoration, there are more political stencils then there are just for show, The Treaty of Lisbon (also known as the Reform Treaty) is an international agreement signed in Lisbon on 13 December 2007 that would change the workings of the European Union, A popular political party Sinn Féin are against the change of this treaty and you will come across hundreds of political stencil art pieces around the city that are in support of Sinn Féin and against the treaty being changed.

On the last day of my travel we visited the old Jameson Whisky distillery and on the way out I heard the sounds of a festival going on in the area we had a look around for this festival and came across a environmental festival with things like organic and health foods onsale, however we came across a guy painting graffiti art onto canvas, Towards the end of the holiday I started to think that there were no major graffiti organizations in Dublin but after seeing the skill of this guys work It changed my mind, he had done some amazing portraits that can be viewed in my gallery at the bottom of this blog.

Finally the last thing I noticed was all over dublin was advertising stickers, they covered on the lamposts, ATM's and building walls, some of them were very attractive, the one that caught my eye was a sticker advertising a graphic design blogspot called "andalltha" he is a graphic designer all the way from paris and has some great work and designs, It was pretty amazing to find a graphic designer advertising his services in such a far away city, but it works, they caught my eye in a number of places, his work is WELL WORTH checking out, you can get to his blog by clicking here

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Disused Freight Line - Northampton

Behind Nunn Mills Power Station is a set of old freight train tracks going out along the bedford road (A426) and under the A45 and then out possibly out to bedford, I will have to do some more research first! (I will update this when i have)

The tracks are no longer in use and sadly no old trains or carriages were left on the tracks, some of the old track equipment and signal boxes still remained but there was very little, Along the way is a huge hotspot for graffiti (I won't name exactly where as I would hate to see it trashed.) probably as it is so close to Nunn Mills, we came as far as there today as we were pressed for time, possibly in the future we will continue along the tracks hoping to find something exciting, but for now here are some photos of our find.

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