Lost Collective has captured the old Summer Hill flour mill in a set of impressive photos

ONE of the last people to get inside the Summer Hill flour mill before the redevelopment started was Brett Patman from Lost Collective. CHECK OUT HIS PHOTOS

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THE historic site of the Summer Hill flour mill has seen plenty of work in recent months, and the first residents are due to move in at the end of 2017.

The five-hectare industrial site of the flour mill has towered over the suburb’s leafy streets for almost 100 years, and developers say it will be transformed into “a beautifully planned place to live, work and play”.

One of the last people to get inside the mill before the redevelopment started was Brett Patman from Lost Collective.

More Photos can be seen at Lost Collective.

Mr Patman said it was a spontaneous decision to go inside the mill.

Mr Patman said it was a spontaneous decision to go inside the mill and take his photos, but that he was glad he’d captured them when he did.

“I went in about two years’ ago now,” he said. “It was quite an interesting afternoon.

“I ran into some guys that seemed to be stealing copper or something, and they fed me some bulls**t story.

“But I ended up just leaving them and got on with taking my photos.”

Mr Patman takes photos regularly of abandoned spaces, and posts them on his website called the Lost Collective.

Mungo Scott Flour Mill. Photo: lostcollective.com

Inside the old flour mill before it redevelopment begun.

Soon to be gone: An artist’s impression of the future of the site.

“It was a bit strange in there, someone was using it as a bit of an artspace, but otherwise not too much was going on,.” he said.

“When I was trying to get in I couldn’t find a gap in the fence and I could see security.

“But then I saw this old bloke just walk in ... and I thought, ‘if he can do it, I can do it’.

The summer hill flour mill is well known.

Discarded furniture is sprawled across the building.

“I’ve been taking these photos for a while now, and I was on my way back home (to Lane Cove) with my wife and daughter from another job when I saw the mill.

“I just knew I had to go back and get photos, so I went that afternoon.”

You can see more photos from the Lost Collective at lostcollective.com

Mungo Scott Flour Mill is a local icon.

Brett Patman takes photos of abandoned buildings.