Category: Industrial

One rainy Saturday afternoon we set out to find an abandoned school but instead stumbled upon this nondescript, farmhouse looking building. Inside however, we found something completely unexpected – an abandoned mill with items dating back to the late 1800s!

Located between Helen’s Bay and Crawfordsburn, this former scrapyard has been called a “blot of the landscape” by residents with a former MP even raising the issue in the House of Commons.

This railway station was opened in 1874 and transported iron ore to Ballymena before it would be shipped to England. Tourists also used the railway station to explore the Glens of Antrim before it closed for good in 1930.

The Chlorine Plant is a now defunct water treatment plant that cleaned and processed potable water for 2 nearby towns with a combined population of 60,000 people.