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1 week agoCountry diary: Racing peregrines among the rusting mills | Richard Smyth
It was thrown up in the 1870s by Samuel Cunliffe Lister, and for more than a century was one of the great industrial palaces of the north. Since shutting in 1999, about half has been restored as offices and high-end flats; the other half is derelict. Forests of buddleia cover the concrete floors, and fox trails wind through the weeds. Peer through steel grilles into the basements, and see hart's-tongue ferns as thick and green as cabbages in a vegetable patch.
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