The old mill, garage, grow room, abandoned explore
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- 67 & 69 Bodmin Rd, St Austell
Reputedly the house was built in c.1856 to cut wood for Brunel’s Spyder viaducts at Trenance Valley and Gover valley. Although this cannot be verified there is a saw-pit adjacent to the premises. The 1871 and 1881 census returns indicate that the building was in use as a coach restorer’s workshop with associated blacksmiths run by the Jewell family. In c.1912 it became an engineering business managed by the Francis family. During the war they produced bronze castings in an engineering/ machine shop that was partially housed in a new extension to the building. Francis Engineering did several large-scale plumbing and heating jobs in houses, two of the biggest were at Garlenick, near Grampound, and Port Neptune in Fowey. Francis Engineering signs were found in a back garden in Bodmin Road and were donated to the St Austell town museum display in the market house. Peter Goodwin bought the premises in 1962. Until 2002 hospital equipment was made on site, items manufactured included waste bins, beds, commodes, surgical instruments and trollies. Presumably these items were on display in the associated on-site showrooms. The Goodwin family lived above the workshops until 1986, after which they moved out and let the upper part of the house. The building has fallen into decline over the past years. we know at some point the lower level was used as an illegal grow room and all the equipment was left after the raid until 2023, now only a few small items remain to suggest. Also it seems the property it still for sale so were unsure of its future.
Fantastic… I walk by this every day and wondered what it looked like inside, unbelievable but only a year or so ago this sold and it was completely full with rubbish and even more waste products.. the new owners have filled skip after skip to get it to this point. Would take a lot of work but like you say it could be a lovely place. Also it was only about two years ago I used to see someone living upstairs with a very warped outside staircase that led to the upper floor with electric lights that worked… still looked absolutely trashed. That staircase has now been demolished obviously. 👍
@warmbeerfreezone no problem at all thankyou for watching
Nice explore ❤
thankyou chelsea
Nette Location mit sehr vielen Gefahren, danke fürs zeigen. Schönes Video, Freunde. 👍💪.
yeah it was very dangerous, thankyou for watching my friend
nice one boys
Thankyou 😀
Have done this place when it still had thing left behind, got chased by a crazy squatter there, still get weird moments remembering it, nice video anyways man
thankyou man
Yeah live close by! Never been in there! Cheers!👋
@@morgandellerue5216 thankyou
Great work on your research! 👍
You seem to have found out more than most.
I have read that this was a GWR building, built as a workshop for them. Can’t recall where I read that at present. The last wood viaducts were built on the falmouth branch line in late 1860s
So I suppose this building eventually became surplus to requirements.
It’s sad to see a bit of our Cornish history crumbling away!
@Dave.w-ev9qn1962 cool and thankyou for watching
Fair play that second floor looked very Sketchy.
yeah cheers mate it was very soft
You lads should go to the Jamaica Inn. Honestly, I S*** myself staying there for one night. Certainly a crazy known place in Cornwall. I never believed in ghost and haunted crap, but after going there that certainly changed.😂😂😂
@Bert3HD yeah it's cool, been a few times for meals but never stayed the night
Bacement is around the beck on the lower road
@markurbex6579 yeah nice one mate
LOL this mill is two doors away from my brothers house,he did it ,not much in side
@markurbex6579 lol yeah it was pretty empty
Is that " blue " house still down Gover ??
@@3DJunkie not sure?
Nosy peplos can keep on ther home paff if not live other live them lives and try to suvive , think your busines and live longer
@@pietropiras654 awesome thankyou
For sure if you want live longer is best gette aut from there asp ,and gette yours selfs job to
@pietropiras654 thankyou for the support