Ghost factories

Nothing is ghastly about this. For almost a year now I am staying in Thane. A place well known (in and around wagle estate) for its industries. But whenever I see anything old and deplorable and more than that deserted, any structure for that matter, it sets me to wonder, what brought this state to this structure? What was that that robbed a structure of its past glory?
Most of the times however I see “court receiver” board on it. At such times I get some kind of answer to my question. That there may have been some kind of feud between families or the company it self went in loss (this can be seen when a bank’s board is also attached to it), but sometimes I get no answers to my questions.
My bus takes the usual LBS route to my bread and butter. On my way I see enormous single storey ghost factories, some of them are as follows:
Modella textiles (closed due to legal dispute, court receiver’s board can be seen)
Ralli wolf or wolf electric tools (no idea why it got closed, may be union dispute the company may have got shifted else where)
Wellcome Burroughs and Wellcome (which kind of factory not known)
Some of the closed down factories lost themselves to new upcoming malls or multi storey buildings some others are waiting to be broken down. When? God knows. Some structures I found at Marol (andheri) and at bandra, vile Parle (when the bus from andheri turns for Mithibai college) and Mahim (some abandoned houses, you can call them bungalows, glorious once upon a time, with their old structures, caught in dispute…, but those were very few and had their answers logically attached to them, with the help of black and white court receiver’s board.
Walking by or passing by these sites make me wonder their past. What must have been when such structures were buzzing with activity? How they must have looked then when they still were adorned with paint which now looked just so hopelessly peeled off? What happened to the people who lived there? Did they perish by the blow of a lock out or managed to bounce back? Do they really have some “noorie” hidden inside, ready to pounce on anyone at night? These and such questions always puzzle me and I wonder I could ever get answers to these questions.