Ipswich Sugar Factory revisited
Photos - 41.
Where - Ipswich, Suffolk.
Visited - 1 April 2007.
Posted - 15 April 2007.
Categories -
urbex, industry.
Met up with a large group of local regulars for a revisit to the sugar factory.
There were two real personal goals for this trip - see new stuff and get to the top of the silos. I think I done that! 
The Silos
These are high - roughly over 200 ladder-rungs high to be precise.
Halfway up, looking out of the window (and fighting through a pile of flies).
Inside the top. These photos came out quite by accident, hence the jaunty angles. I was using the flash on my small camera to illuminate some of Speed's long exposure photos. I didn't take my main camera up. Idiot.
The views of Ipswich and the factory were rather splendid.
Main Offices
We couldn't get into these last time, but we found a way. A lot of the internal rooms were bolted up, but one or two were open.
Power Generator
A lot of the power generator has been demolished, including the really tall building which we climbed.
The "totally sealed up" room has been unsealed, nay, smashed up completely.
The impressively huge turbine remains.
Production area
Saw some new machines in here, accidentally, thanks to being on the wrong floor looking for a door.
Unofficially dubbed the "Slicey Dicey machine™", this machine is used to chop raw beet into small managable chunks dry sugar.
Warehouses
Inside was an old Sierra, either being done up or smashed up.
Buildings
A final look at some of the other buildings on site.
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Posted 20 April 2007, 10:10 From Browser
I'm not absolutely sure what this is but a turbine it ain't! It's probably either a diffuser or a drier, quite slow-rotating, through which either the beet or pulp would have passed.
Posted 29 July 2008, 21:50 From John Garten
Do you have anything on the Headquarters Offices and factory in Peterborough. In 1983 I worked with a CSC/UK team to determine the computer upgrade needed by BSC. After reviewing the CICS transaction records, we selected the IBM 4381 Model J to replace the IBM 4341. I created a great graph showing the bell curve of daily transactions (in 10 minute intervals) less big Vs representing the coffee, lunch, and tea breaks.
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