Skylights

Negative twenty looks much warmer in retrospect, wouldn’t you say? Taken through the window of a gantry crane cab.

Rain and snow has gutted a third of the building. From the ground floor, I could see the sky in some places.

The only door into a large windowless concrete room, probably a storage bin. Kodak Portra 160/Mamiya 6.

Where staff could sleep.

A bleak double room in what used to be the Receiving Hospital, built apart from the Kirkbride to observe incoming patients before they were placed in a ward.

An abandoned gatehouse bearing the name of the former factory.

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Shadows of the timberwork and cribbing are cast across cracked lake ice. My footprints follow cat tracks.

Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.