2026-10-16 16:15 UTC
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@Stem@framapiaf.org 2026-10-16 16:26
@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social Alas, industrial heritage is often dismissed.
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@brie@venera.social 2026-10-16 16:29
@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social Here it's usually the simplest transition from the liability of caring about the heritage into the asset of having a free site in a good spot.
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@mandelbroccoli@cupoftea.social 2026-10-16 16:44
@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social If it’s listed, then the existing fixtures etc are part of the listing. Conservation legislation doesn’t take into account that you might not want to buy a place like that just to spend a fortune turning it into a museum-piece. This is a pain for a private house (such as one with an old mill attached - guess how I know!), but for large places like that it’s a death sentence. No one with the money to do it up will take it on, so a lot of these places are either left to rot, or suffer fires - less original features left inside means more latitude for developers to remodel the interior. To be honest, the listing system needs an update, and developers, almost exclusively, need to be beaten like a rented mule, shoved off their private yachts into the North Sea in January, and all their assets sold to fund actual conservation of these buildings. Builders, great, all good. Developers, absolute spawn of satan, every last one.
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@cynical13@social.vivaldi.net 2026-10-16 17:55
@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social Good thing the country has you to snap to it then.
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@DO3EET@mastodon.hams.social 2026-10-16 18:54
@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social also a lot of Japanese temples are burning
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@Quasit@hear-me.social 2026-10-16 19:23
@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social A lot of our old mill buildings in New England have gone up in flames, too. I suspect arson in many cases.
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@markno@mastodon.online 2026-10-17 06:14
@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social it’s just like the 1970’s all over again.
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@minus9@hachyderm.io 2026-10-17 10:54
@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social When I used to work in Bradford it was common for listed wool mills to spontaneously combust before being replaced by flats 😞