R.O.F Featherstone.

Royal Ordnance Factory Featherstone was filling factory No.17, covering just over 64 hectares, the factory used to specialise in filling various munitions, including, Bombs, Shells, Smoke and Cartridges.

It served a major role in WWII but since then has remained derelict, at some point BAE Systems took over the site and kept the majority of the buildings but sold off 13 hectares to HMP Service who have now constructed a prison on the remains of certain parts of the site.

At present the remainding site is up for disposal and planning permission has been sought to transform the site into a housing estate.

I have always known about this place and have always enjoyed reading reports from other explorers about visiting here.

But until recently I had forgotten about the place until myself Jaff Fox and Lawrence where doing a road trip down to the Midlands and realised it was on the way to one of our targets.

On arrival we where not sure what to expect apart from dereliction on a major scale, judging by what we had seen driving past.

How ever once there we quickly made our way in, and explored as much as we could given our small window of time.

The first thing that strikes you with this place is the post apocalyptic feel, roads and roads of total desertion, its almost as if time has stood still and your going back through time.

There is a vast amount of buildings and you really question yourself as to where to start.

The majority of the buildings are stripped out but you still get a feel of history and a general feeling of what it was like to work here including the atmosphere.

Most of all the major equipment has long gone but theres still bits scattered about that are worth seeing.

Given our limited time on site we still covered almost every bit of the place and despite it being almost bare it was still worth seeing, and very photogenic in parts.

Without a doubt the most interesting part of Featherstone is the decontamination block, with the shower rooms virtually untouched and stretcher room with WWII stretchers still in situ.

As with most WWII sites finding something still in situ is very much rare if not none existent, so it was exceptionally nice to finally find some where like this still as it was left.

A very cool place, for now anyway!!!