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 Griffinstar
Gender: Male
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< on 6/6/2005 7:50 AM >
|  | | | There's what appear to be two abandoned factories in the Peterborough area. I'm past my UE days now (being all respectable and such) so I can't risk getting caught while trying to preserve any history with my camera. Thus, I offer these possible spots to any eager souls. I've hunted through the forums to see if there was any mention of these spots and couldn't find anything. My apologies if they're already known.
There's what appears to be an abandoned factory in Peterborough behind the new Rona store & Canadian Canoe Museum. There's a number of very well locked doors on the outside and it's signed with Trent Security stickers (the major monitoring company for the area). Likewise, it's surrounded by several fences too with residental houses backing on one side and two busy parking lots/roads on the other sides.
There's also what looks like an abandoned factory/warehouse in Omemee (about 20 minutes NW of Peterborough on Highway 7). It too is right on the main road with little to no cover anywhere around - surrounded by residential housing too.
Good luck.
G.
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Roadwolf
        
The Wolf!
Location: Buffalo, NY (formerly Toronto, Canada)
Gender: Male
Living on the Road and Rails.
| |  |  | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 1 on 6/6/2005 12:37 PM >
| | | | yea, I don't know about the one in peterbrough... but I have seen the one in Omemee. There is also a abandoned cement plant in Lakefeild... I assume leftover from the canal building days.
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| |  | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 2 on 6/6/2005 4:40 PM >
| | | | Hmmm... might take a tour out there this weekend, I have no plans yet!
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Roadwolf
The Wolf!
Location: Buffalo, NY (formerly Toronto, Canada)
Gender: Male
Living on the Road and Rails.
| | | | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 3 on 6/6/2005 4:53 PM >
| | | | the lakefeild cement plant is now apparently guarded by Securitas, ??? i dunno why, the place is tagged to death already.
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Griffinstar
Gender: Male
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 4 on 6/11/2005 7:47 AM >
| | | | Hmm. I know someone who works for Securitas but I don't think he's ever put up in Lakefield... However, it could be a great way to get a "guided" (or at least fully unescorted) tour one day if he got sent there. Where abouts is the cement factory?
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Thadius
Location: Hamilton
Gender: Male
Above all, Truth
| | |  |  | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 5 on 6/11/2005 3:14 PM >
| | | | I have been in the cement factory, it is mainly just a shell, but being such an imposing structure among houses and small businesses in such a small community draws the raff and the security is mainly there to keep people from hurting themselves. I did enjoy my exploration of the cement factory though; I had never been in one and the vastness of the place was amazing. It was just room after room, it had vaults and low concrete tunnels and giant concrete bowls several very high un-railed walkways and more turns and hiding spots than I could count. It was a lot of fun imagining the hulking iron engines and cogwheels actually doing something in the past.
As for the factory behind the canoe museum, if I am thinking of the right one, it is not abandon, it is used as a storage facility for the Canoe Museum. One of my History Professors at Trent University was/is an executive on the museum board and for a class research trip once aloud us to enter this facility. Of course, I ignored the several canoes and explored the huge building. It was a nice place, kind of boring though.
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M3ntal Ward
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
We should all be a little mental? Right?
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 6 on 6/25/2005 6:46 PM >
| | | | I hear that the old King George public school is going to be knocked down to build a new Y.M.C.A. It appears to be empty from the outside. The grass is still cut on the property to make it look nice and some people from the Day Care next door park there as well.
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 7 on 6/25/2005 8:31 PM >
| | | | I was in Lakefield on monday, and did a quick visual of the concrete factory. It looks to me like Savage Arms is using the property surrounding it, a very active place. The fence that surrounded the perimeter of the plant was filled with people and vehicles.
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otonabee
Location: Peterborough/Bowmanville, Ontario,Canada/ Crypto urbano
Gender: Male
I'm not from here
| | | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 8 on 6/25/2005 9:32 PM >
| | | | Posted by M3ntal Ward
I hear that the old King George public school is going to be knocked down to build a new Y.M.C.A. It appears to be empty from the outside. The grass is still cut on the property to make it look nice and some people from the Day Care next door park there as well.
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Are you sure that the school is King George. I have not been in Peterborough in quite some time but i think the school might be King Edward. I could be wrong.
Calvin: It's a magical world, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy . . . let's go exploring!
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M3ntal Ward
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
We should all be a little mental? Right?
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 9 on 6/30/2005 12:55 AM >
| | | | | Are you sure that the school is King George. I have not been in Peterborough in quite some time but i think the school might be King Edward. I could be wrong. |
I think that you are right about this, thanks for the correction. Do you know the exact status of this building?
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Griffinstar
Gender: Male
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 10 on 8/5/2005 6:49 AM >
| | | | The building, the King Edward Public School, is being prepped for demolition shortly. However, it's being used by the Peterborough Fire Department for training purposes right now. There was an article in one of the local rags about it. Apparently, the FD has set up each of the classrooms as different training scenario rooms - one's a cave in, one's a tangled mass of wires... things like that. I'd put the building down as an extreme risk because of that. The FD is going to clear out shortly though, and I'm not sure when exactly it's set for demo.
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safety_matches
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 11 on 8/31/2005 7:26 AM >
| | | | Yes, Savage Arms does occupy a portion of the property. They make ammunition. Could they have chosen a better name?
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Devineus
Location: Oshawa
Gender: Male
"To Search for those who have been forgotten"
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 12 on 9/6/2005 4:06 PM >
| | | | Hrmmm, i dont know about you guys.. but uer'in around an ammunition manufacturer might be a little bit unerveing. If they got bullets... the must have something to test em with..
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spelunk
Gender: Male
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 13 on 10/18/2005 3:28 AM >
| | | | The building in Omemee is the old Regal Stationary envelope factory that closed down some time ago.
The building behind the canoe museum indeed is the storage area for the canoes not on display in the main museum.
I believe the school in question is already a pile of rubble on the ground.
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otonabee
Location: Peterborough/Bowmanville, Ontario,Canada/ Crypto urbano
Gender: Male
I'm not from here
| | | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 14 on 7/7/2006 4:11 AM >
| | | | Posted by spelunk
The building in Omemee is the old Regal Stationary envelope factory that closed down some time ago.
The building behind the canoe museum indeed is the storage area for the canoes not on display in the main museum.
I believe the school in question is already a pile of rubble on the ground.
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At one time the building or buildings in and around the canoe museum were part of the Outboard Marine factory. A very big employer in peterborough next to quaker oats and CGE. Speaking of CGE if that place ever closes down it will be the gem of central ontario for exploration, but i hope for the sake of the employees it isnt anytime soon
cge(canadian general electric) i believe they make the turbines for the cando reactors here
Calvin: It's a magical world, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy . . . let's go exploring!
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 15 on 7/7/2006 4:42 AM >
| | | | Posted by Roadwolf
yea, I don't know about the one in peterbrough... but I have seen the one in Omemee. There is also a abandoned cement plant in Lakefeild... I assume leftover from the canal building days.
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This location has possibly the best photos of any entry in the DB (assuming we're talking about the same site).
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Stabadeus
Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
Cue the 'Emailing The Prime Minister' music. Take that you smug, beady eyed son of a bitch!
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 16 on 7/7/2006 1:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by otonabee
At one time the building or buildings in and around the canoe museum were part of the Outboard Marine factory. A very big employer in peterborough next to quaker oats and CGE. Speaking of CGE if that place ever closes down it will be the gem of central ontario for exploration, but i hope for the sake of the employees it isnt anytime soon
cge(canadian general electric) i believe they make the turbines for the cando reactors here
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That would be fun. Just take plenty of precautions for safety. I heard, according to a 2000 study I believe, if you wanted to reclaim the land it's on, you'd have to remove the first 20 feet of earth. And that's just 2000 data.
I've heard tell of a small tunnel system underneath too. Long forgotten, so it would seem.
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otonabee
Location: Peterborough/Bowmanville, Ontario,Canada/ Crypto urbano
Gender: Male
I'm not from here
| | | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 17 on 7/7/2006 6:21 PM >
| | | | I walked by the property everyday on my way to Kenner high school but since those days i have not seen the place much. I don't know what is left standing
Forgot to mention i am refering to Outboard Marine. I know this post has three or four places being talked about
[last edit 7/7/2006 6:23 PM by otonabee - edited 1 times]
Calvin: It's a magical world, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy . . . let's go exploring!
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chillipeppersgirl
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 18 on 7/10/2006 7:05 PM >
|  | | | I am from Lakefield. It's in the peterborough area. I have been in the cement factory, it burnt down a long time ago, and people have tried numerous times to keep people out. Just recently they painted over all of the graffiti at the top, so some people i know had to go redo their art. PS. We are big fans of the red hot chilli peppers.
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Peterborough Area
<Reply # 19 on 7/10/2006 7:45 PM >
| | | | God, that's ugly. And what is this.. 1993? Why don't you write "Alice in Chains #1" up there while you're at it?
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