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 are held at Richmond Rugby Club and 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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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 is at the bar

Conversation in the Rugby Club bar

Kyrie does rabbit-ears on Adam

There's an intro to the day ahead

Ben leads some funky warm-up moves

It's the moves out of YMCA

Marissa can hardly see out of her costume

Gold team takes a break

David fires a tennis-ball cannon

Yellow team bounce around

Juha and Catalina on ball cannons

Sponges and water fling around

Ben M looks a bit over-excited

Balancing on buckets

Orange team's sponge travels along

Błażej returns some sponges

The stage is set for the 'giants' game

Mike, Steve and Michele practice their rowing

The giants are standing up

Kah-Mun looks actually scared

Emlyn gets offered a hand

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

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