Industrial Horror · Broken Machines · Unfinished Dreams
Some machines never stop. Some factories never close. Some things that were built to make — keep making — long after anyone ordered them to.
Ironwake stories live in the spaces between shifts — in restoration projects that went too far, in machines that were retired but never unplugged, in the men and women who tried to rebuild something and built the wrong thing back instead.
Tyler Jones has explored abandoned places all over the US for his Instagram account "Tyler Explores". He and his 195K subscribers thought the long abandoned Shaw's toys in North River West, UK would be perfect! And the factory has been waiting for someone just like Tyler....
Tyler Jones' exploration of Shaw's Toys led to an amazing discovery. Then Tyler disappeared. When Tyler Jones came back, he was a completely different person, literally and figuratively. Somehow he had gotten land titles and complete ownership of the old factory. And he was creating again — only not with a camera...
Tyler Jones, 31. Quit a dead-end job, hit the road, camera in one hand, chaos in the other. "Exploring places most people won't... so you don't have to."
Elias Shaw of Shaw's Works, Est. 1852. "We do not replace humanity. We upgrade it."
Mina Williams. Beautiful, ambitious, and about to become something far more permanent than she ever wanted to be.