One of greatest objects ever, preserved in unique shape - it's uncommon to find something that intresting. The main difficulty was that most of the door in the office area were closed - sometimes to cross from one wing to another we need to go back to another, change storeys multiple time, seek another way in, sometimes thru basement - it could take an hour or more - the place was clearly a minotaur maze. (4 wings, 5 storeys, hundreds of rooms). The real purpose of the foundry remains unknown, the official version was it was department fo Warsaw Pump Factory (WFP), but it's more likely they just produced some 'strategic value' parts. Judging from inadequate (for the factory halls size) huge offices and laboratories division, lack of information, and unique power supply of the place, this seems most possible explanation... There's lack of confirmable sources on the place history, only that the construction of the factory started in 1971, the factory employed around 2000 people, and it was unexpectidly shut down just after political transformation in very early 90's
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Main factory road - factory halls on the left, offices out front |
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One of the hall gates
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Strange chimney (perhaps with some kind of silencer ?) and roof service ladder
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Stocked fireclay bricks ready for disposal
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View on the first hall
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Psylocibe
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Debris covering the floor, some of it was granite stone. Brick constructions on the left.
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Main gas valve caretaker station
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One of furnaces control panel
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Composition of the mixture
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Steelworks carriage
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Anyone remember 'Quake II' ?
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Piles of bricks, junk and trash
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Heavy duty gauntry and some special ventilation system
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Mud out of fine dust - increadibly sticky; view thru gate inside second hall
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The rest of first hall from above the furnace chains
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Some very officious worker left the gloves on the workplace
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View form balcony
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Some minor electric stuff
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Elevator controls
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'fuse'
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Crane workers comm table
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'ray'
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In case of fire...
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...and save as from...
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'phone'
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one of the corridors.
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Controlled area... it's getting intresting
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Foregin commerce development of PRL....
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Social benefits development in 70's...
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Storage room.
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and storageman collection...
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'Arabic rubber'
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One of the main transformer control panels
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'Bar' ? Where ? We're getting hungry... Also some clay elements
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I always wanted to drive such one
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Further part of the hall
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One of multiple medium (SN/NN) to low voltage transformers
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Anything for hanging?
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The need is the mother of all inventions
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Another hall
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X-ray blast doors
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Diploma for commarade of 'exemplary work and social atittude'
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These sinks were propably designed for feet, or boots washing
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Showers inclued
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and the cabinets
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1986 over Biebrza :)
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Chemical lab
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inside
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many kinds of pyrite ore
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development of pepsi blue ?
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if case somone got thirsty...
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Some of the handful chemicals
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Some closest area keys
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Electronic workshop |
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Radioactive sources magazine
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Area of time limited presence
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Acethylena and oxygen installation was all over the place
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another storage room
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Uncommon chemical/radiative protection suit
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and common soviet style fur caps
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Plastic workshop furnace
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High quality merchandise - falls apart before leaving the workshop
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'Breakfast room' (œniadalnia) - what was the purpose of the red walls ? to et quickly and back to work ?
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Did she hang up?
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storage area...
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Rental of blueprints, only authorised entry
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The archive needs new management
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You can write down your thouths
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or seek for christmas presents (decoration was separated).
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Office depot
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Need of new fireplace facade ?
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Brand new spectrometre, found same model on ebay at 30k USD
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small chemical storage - all the jars were filled
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and so on
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Very cosy office
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Mess-hall
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One of entry points
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And another - notice the barred windows upside
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lunchroom interior.
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More buildings - no photo sign on water station.
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Signs of 'free' labour union... cannot define the age of this piece
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View from some distance
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Factory hall with tower
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