Another of the ”UE” Holy Grails, the Rover Longbridge car factory, fully intact, stocked to the brim, ready to roll at the flick of a switch. In the five years since exploring Longbridge, now hanging on its last thread, predominantly demolished, no other location has come close to its sheer size, history or adventure. Longbridge will likely always will be unique in this sense.

Even today, this still remains one of the most unique and adventurous locations Ive ever had the privilege of accessing, the result of a stupid gamble that could have left us adrift in the north sea. Everyone knows what an oil-rig looks like, those ominous floating hulks of metal, towed out to sea to drill the black gold which powers our everyday lives. Catching the occasional television show on discovery i had always wanted to visit one myself, a dream i feared unattainable, especially in the current climate of duct-tape your baby to the floor to be sure, health and safety.

For a long time the fate of Shoreham cement has been balancing on the knife edge held by the local council executives. Shoreham’s owners at the time, Blue Circle, had planned to redevelop the site, bringing it up to modern standards, aiming to reopen it in 2010. I don’t know anything about the cement industry, i don’t really care enough to look into it. However, from the cement works I’ve seen in and around London, sites which take up less then 1/30th of the space Shoreham does, i cant help but feel it would be easier and cheaper to just bulldoze the entire site and start anew?