Possible still-working factory at Brantham
It's a SwiftKey Knockout, Richmond Rugby Club, Richmond, Surrey - 7th July 2015
It's SwiftKey's annual away-day thrash, with the theme this year being based loosely on 1970's TV classic It's a Knockout. After the events, which include a fair amount of tropical-scented bubble bath, there's a barbeque and a free bar. Following that, a breakout group heads over to nearby Old Deer Park for a spot of rounders. There's also an update of the state of the derelict factory site at Brantham, near Manningtree. Once the site of British Xylotol, and then Wardle-Storey in the early 1990s, the site has been slowly disappearing.
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The old Wardle-Storey site at Brantham
Pipes and tanks
Entropy increases in a derelict building
Derelict offices and factory
Piles of pallets and concrete
Nature steadily reclaims waste ground
A shell of an office block
A wider view of the office shell
Graffiti is covered by foliage
Commuters at Chadwell Heath
Simple tags
Trackside graffiti, Seven Kings
Multiple tags near Seven Kings
Stacked railway flatbeds
Fading silver tags
Ilford Maintenance Depot
Ilford 'B' Shop
An ancient parcel wagon at Ilford
The Ilford 'A' Shop gets some work done
The new Bombardier sheds at Ilford
A derelict building on Kew Foot Lane
SwiftKey hangs at the bar
Conversation in the Rugby Club bar
The various teams get rugged up in bibs
Kyrie does rabbit-ears on Adam
The teams line up
There's an intro to the day ahead
Signing waivers of liability
Juha looks more than a bit keen
Something funny occurs
Some dance moves to warm up
Ben leads some funky moves
It's the moves out of YMCA
James collects tennis balls
Marissa can hardly see out of her costume
Gold team takes a break
David fires a tennis-ball cannon
Steve stuffs some balls in to a chest
Yellow team bounce around
Juha and Catalina on ball cannons
It's wet sponge time
Sponges and water fling around
Ben M looks a bit over-excited
Balancing on buckets
Waiting to catch falling sponges
Orange team's sponge travels along
Błażej returns some sponges
The stage is set for the 'giants' game
Costumes that look like off the telly
Mike, Steve and Michele practice their rowing
The giants are standing up
Martin B awaits his fate
Kah-Mun looks actually scared
Emlyn gets offered a hand
Jess comes down the slide
It's a foam fest
Ryan goes over the top
More sliding in foam
Blue Team photo
Caroline piles out of the Washing Machine
The Black Team hold up their socks
Adam exits, covered in foam
A sock is retrieved
Yellow Team group photo
An entire SwiftKey team photo
James C and the orange team
Adam looks around
Ben sprays Champagne like a Formula 1 winner
Pink Team photo
Thomas is held up by the yellow team
The Barbeque queue
More burgers are sacrificed
Caroline and Nick discuss the events of the day
The spoils of glory
Tom does an under-the-leg catch
Nick hurls a Frisbee
Nick bounces up to catch a Frisbee
Ben leads the team off to Old Deer Park
The almost Stalinist architecture of the club
The back of the Richmond stands
On the way to Old Deer Park
Decamping to Old Deer Park
SwiftKey on the pitch
Ben scores a home run at Rounders
Paul and Doug
A British Airways A380 Super-Heavy trundles in
Chilling out on the grass
A small dog invades the group
Richmond's striking 1930's railway station
Richmond station platform
A super-dusty commuter train at Colchester Station
Manningtree looks pretty in the evening sun
Derelict buildings at Brantham
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Possible still-working factory at Brantham
Possible still-working factory at Brantham
The old Wardle-Storey site at Brantham
Pipes and tanks
Entropy increases in a derelict building
Derelict offices and factory
Piles of pallets and concrete
Nature steadily reclaims waste ground
A shell of an office block
A wider view of the office shell
Graffiti is covered by foliage
Commuters at Chadwell Heath
Simple tags
Trackside graffiti, Seven Kings
Multiple tags near Seven Kings
Stacked railway flatbeds
Fading silver tags
Ilford Maintenance Depot
Ilford 'B' Shop
An ancient parcel wagon at Ilford
The Ilford 'A' Shop gets some work done
The new Bombardier sheds at Ilford
A derelict building on Kew Foot Lane
SwiftKey hangs at the bar
Conversation in the Rugby Club bar
The various teams get rugged up in bibs
Kyrie does rabbit-ears on Adam
The teams line up
There's an intro to the day ahead
Signing waivers of liability
Juha looks more than a bit keen
Something funny occurs
Some dance moves to warm up
Ben leads some funky moves
It's the moves out of YMCA
James collects tennis balls
Marissa can hardly see out of her costume
Gold team takes a break
David fires a tennis-ball cannon
Steve stuffs some balls in to a chest
Yellow team bounce around
Juha and Catalina on ball cannons
It's wet sponge time
Sponges and water fling around
Ben M looks a bit over-excited
Balancing on buckets
Waiting to catch falling sponges
Orange team's sponge travels along
Błażej returns some sponges
The stage is set for the 'giants' game
Costumes that look like off the telly
Mike, Steve and Michele practice their rowing
The giants are standing up
Martin B awaits his fate
Kah-Mun looks actually scared
Emlyn gets offered a hand
Jess comes down the slide
It's a foam fest
Ryan goes over the top
More sliding in foam
Blue Team photo
Caroline piles out of the Washing Machine
The Black Team hold up their socks
Adam exits, covered in foam
A sock is retrieved
Yellow Team group photo
An entire SwiftKey team photo
James C and the orange team
Adam looks around
Ben sprays Champagne like a Formula 1 winner
Pink Team photo
Thomas is held up by the yellow team
The Barbeque queue
More burgers are sacrificed
Caroline and Nick discuss the events of the day
The spoils of glory
Tom does an under-the-leg catch
Nick hurls a Frisbee
Nick bounces up to catch a Frisbee
Ben leads the team off to Old Deer Park
The almost Stalinist architecture of the club
The back of the Richmond stands
On the way to Old Deer Park
Decamping to Old Deer Park
SwiftKey on the pitch
Ben scores a home run at Rounders
Paul and Doug
A British Airways A380 Super-Heavy trundles in
Chilling out on the grass
A small dog invades the group
Richmond's striking 1930's railway station
Richmond station platform
A super-dusty commuter train at Colchester Station
Manningtree looks pretty in the evening sun
Derelict buildings at Brantham