Cereal Partners Shredded Wheat Factory, Welwyn Garden City, May 2009

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Reading through an old newspaper article written in 2005 it would seem Cereal Partners wanted to close the site circa 2007 and move the whole operation to Staverton. Some people thought this was a rather cynical move with a hidden agenda of realising the sites asset value, but it looks like C.P. got their way. Explored twice, firstly with very late at night (too dark to take pictures) and secondly about a week later during daylight hours. Lots of conveyer belt equipment and machinery still remains in place, including what looks like the packing and dispatching area. There were also kitchens, dining rooms, a large engineering department and laboratories that were untouched. Unfortunately it looked like most of the equipment used for the actual manufacture of cereals had been stripped out and some areas of the site looked liked they had been abandoned for years given the level of decay. The silo's also made for a very interesting look around with lots of interesting coloured pipe work everywhere.