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Off-limits to the public, the abandoned factory is shrouded in mystery. The only people foolhardy enough to venture in are the ‘urban explorers’ who leave themselves at the mercy of the dangers within.

That is, until local democracy reporter George Lythgoe and photographer Kenny Brown stepped up. For the first time in years, the razor wire-topped gates of the old Turner Brothers site in Rochdale have been opened to the Manchester Evening News .

Once the world’s largest asbestos manufacturer and a massive local employer, the plant was closed in the 1990s and has stood derelict for decades. ‘Rochdale’s Chernobyl’, as it’s become known, has been the subject of an ongoing planning row almost ever since with widespread concerns about exactly what hazardous substanc

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