Derelict Unigate Factory Set Against A Blue Sky, Great Torrington. This Once Thriving Creamery Has Been Abandoned Editorial Photo

Derelict Unigate factory set against a blue sky, Great Torrington. This once thriving creamery has been abandoned since the early 1990's derelict Unigate factory set against a blue sky, Great Torrington. This once thriving creamery has been abandoned since the early 1990's following a damaging fire in the drying plant. A Creamery has stood on this site since 1874 when Robert Sandford founded the Torridge Vale Dairy and Butter Factory. Its situation at the bottom of the Torridge Valley was ideal being in a close proximity to the newly opened railway. By 1932 the site expanded under the ownership of the Cow and Gate Company. The site was modernised and grew further after the second world war. A new milk churn facility was built as production increased with a laboratory and canteen above it. These windows would have provided light for the employees on the production line. By the mid 1970's this site was run by Dairy Crest