Called AKC Medika (it stands for Autonomous Cultural Centre), the ex-factory is now home to dancers, skaters, painters, filmmakers, street artists, and anyone with a creative vision who needs a workspace.
But they could also be seen behind the register at Circle K or Wal-Mart — the older ex-factory workers competing with younger ex-factory workers for jobs.
Hook plays them as well – in Europe with ex-Factory Records act Section 25.
Bagehot headed this week to Hampshire, a southern county that is home to gritty ports and ex-factory towns as well as leafy villages.
"I want to be independent from everyone," ex-factory worker Nikolai Cherepin told AFP. "Yugoslavia broke up and they live well now".
68-69 Mill Street, 01865 248546, osneykite.com Festooned with pot plants, knick-knacks and bunting, this whitewashed ex-factory unit is a bar, art gallery and restaurant.
Inside the ex-factory, several thousand guests from around the globe pushed and posed, drinking shots of straight liquor served in test tubes.
In fact, these days "it's like an old people's home... most of the hens don't lay, but the big Sussex hens we have can live to 15, and I've been getting the little, brown, ex-factory hens to 11".
We're having lunch in Winzavod, a fashionable ex-factory art space in Moscow where they have their office, and I almost feel a twinge of pity for those prison officials.
