Amylum Aquitaine

This derelict industrial building was located on the less inhabited side of the River Garonne in Bordeaux.  The front door was wide open, some of the rooms had been completely trashed, and some were in near perfect condition with new-looking swivel chairs and well-kept carpet.  I didn’t go upstairs because I was pretty certain that the upper floor was being lived in by a group of squatters – and interrupting them is not something that I wished to do!  The pram hanging ominously in the doorway and the builders hat hung up on the bannisters showed that it was definitely frequented by people…  Apparently the sign ‘Amylum Aquitaine’ hints at the idea that the building would have once been a sugar factory or similar – Aquitaine being the district in which Bordeaux is and Amylum the plant that produces sugar.  Another interesting reminder of the obsoletion of modern life, now lost in the rubble.