The mink farm is up the hill behind our house, it's abandoned now and like a lot of abandoned places it has a strange, rather eerie feel to it. For me anywhere that something was kept against its will is always going to have a melancholy atmosphere and this place is no exception. Whilst I know the barbed wire was in fact to keep thieves out it feels now very much as if it was also to keep the mink in.
The mink were kept in small cages, a row down either side of the 50 foot long sheds, of which there are about 12.
The sheds are now falling down and overgrown and this only adds to how strange the how place feels.
The barbed wire is everywhere.
Because the mink farm is so high up it does give the most incredible views over Elland and the wider Calder Valley.
Elland by-pass
And the M62
My favourite barbed wire photo
