82. Bass Maltings Tower Climb

Bass maltings started in 1892 when the first well was sunk here. It was later used for a variety of uses in the 70’s, including live chickens, and frozen veg. Since then it’s had more fires than Adeles had hot dinners.

The access should have been easy, yet it claimed four out of the five of our groups trousers…



The site is HUGE, and arranged into avenues like this:


The architecture, although industrial, was intricate:


Inside the buildings weren’t that inspiring, mainly rooms like this:




So I decided to get some height to make things interesting.

First Roof:


Into the walkway that you can see on the left (note the window above)


Then to the other side of the roof:


I started to notice most of my shots were pointing towards that big water tower and chimney. There isn’t a route up the chimney, but there looks to be one up the water tower…

About level with the gables, looking across the site:


Another 30ft up, at the top:


And the other side:


What ever you do, don’t look down…


Coming down the ladder:


Beautiful wrought iron staircase leading our shaking jelly legs to terra firma:


Cheers for looking.