Expedition Site 5, Expedition 7, May 30th 2009, Belgium

After Filature EDP, we went on a search for another location in the afternoon and found this one...

 

The mill driven on steam called "De Nieuwe Molens of Ghent and Bruges" was founded in 1897. At the site that we visited a mill was exploited from 1898. The oldest buildings were erected by "Meunerie Duyckers & Connors" and tought of by architect E. De Weerdt.
In 1904 important expansions were realized. De buildings were heightned and somewhere in the 1930's a new chimney was designed for the site by the Brussels architect Thilly. In 1958 the plant  was expanded with concrete silo's. 

In 2004 the mill was closed and is currently being reconverted for housing projects.

 

Before noon we went to EDP and we searched for a new location to fill our afternoon with.
Driving around a bit we found a site that we thought was very worth while. After going in a bit we found that we stumbled upon a once great location, but now completely destroyed by nature. If we only knew then what we have learned now, we would have stayed on that site (an urbex will follow soon of that site).

We went on and saw another building. One I knew is abandoned not so long ago. We decided to give it a go.
Inside we found lots of empty places and nothing really worth while to photograph. On the other hand, since we were there, we might as well just take some pics. I took a few and selected from those to put on this site. In retrospect, they didn't really turned out so bad.
Have a look below!