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Soda Ash Works

Visited with Little Elvis and Zero

Visited while on a road trip tied in with a social explorers meet in Stoke we traveled to the Soda Ash works, as we approached through fields of cows and along a small stream we jumped the fence and scouted around the building for an entrance into the metaphorical explorers candy shop inside. As I squeeze myself though the hole in a plank of wood covering where a window once sat my lungs are hit with that familiar taste of bird shit and dust mixed with the taste of undisturbed air (something you cannot describe to anyone who has not tasted it). The building itself swallows you inside as you wander around its levels, the tools sit in their correct spots where the workers left them waiting and hoping to be used once again but unfortunately they never will.

Industry like this is a dying bread like the dodo and my choice to document it is like the scientists that place animals inside formaldehyde I wish to preserve these things for others to see. I can but hope that my images achieve this and with this location I tried to not only show the small details which make this location unique but also portray its size.