cottam

Explore A pretty unqiue and different place with this historic church in a long defunct medieval village sitting alone in a field, it was said to had been built for farmers in 1890 replacing a medieval chapel and was said to had stop being used around the second war, probably due to the nearby...

Cottam Power Station Figured that I should probably post this one, considering it has sat in a pre-written state for most of the year on a file I've nearly deleted several times. Anyway, here goes nothin' As coal usage in the UK and across most of the western world diminishes, more and more of...

I hadn't actually intended to go to Cottam at all, given how reportedly commited security were to repelling camera wielding visitors. However, this was also around the time that @Olkka had got into my head with talk of 'the zone', and as such there grew a Cottam-zone shaped hole in my life that...

Enjoyed this one, access was fun. Considering how tight security is on here. I’d been up since 4am for work it was a late one for this. We’ve all been there though, sometimes the lack of sleep, pushing yourself when you just want to sleep adds to the buzz. We had planned to go back and tick off...

Silly UE politics aside i really quite enjoyed this one in the end. I dont know why but it never looked like it was going to be much good from what i had seen so i was only really interested to 'tick it off the list' as such. As always tho i think if you get the timing right and get a chance to...

This report is a kind of joint report as @Esoteric Eric and I went together so the photos are a combination of both of ours put together History The Cottam power stations are a pair of power stations. The site extends over 620 acres of mainly arable land and is situated at the eastern edge of...

Another couple of peaks into another couple of the last of the UK coal fired gen-set. I've been sitting on these for ages cos I'm a paranoid loon and feel like a bit of a twat for not letting them out the bag as I'm guessing they'll be of high interest to the power fiends on here. Obviously...