fuel

Introduction I have always seen this small selection of buildings from the main road when visiting Sculthorpe, but stupidly have always disregarded them as empty buildings without taking a look. @Mikeymutt mentioned that he had had a look and discovered that the buildings had some nice pumping...

I have made many, many visits to Sculthorpe over the years and have seen all that can be seen. Except for this one little bit which sits on land on the old airfield side. I have passed it many times knowing what it was, but wondering what lay in it, not a lot I thought at first. I decided to...

Invergordon fuel depot was located at the naval dockyard and port operated by the Royal Navy at Invergordon, a coastal town which lies adjacent to the sheltered deep waters of the Cromarty Firth. During World War II, the fuel depot at the port operated in conjunction with the Inchindown oil...

The Islip Reserve Fuel Depot was built for the R.A.F.prior to World War II for airfield fuel supply and later taken over by ESSO. GPSS stands for Government Pipelines & Storage System. The depot was first used in the late 1930s by the RAF as a reserve fuel depot with a capacity of around 6500...

Finally we are able to see inside the 'Question mark' ... Old Ranges Reservoir/Tank opposite the Tennis Courts and Commandants House. Someone has destroyed the covering lid and concrete surround.. Clive and myself were looking at another structure nearby and had bought an endoscope with us...

From what I've found, this is an extremely lesser known site, although playing a vital part in the operation of local airfields RAF Massingham, RAF Raynham, and RAF Sculthorpe. Before I carry on, please look up https://www.jimbooks.co.uk/free-downloads.php and look for a link named "Harpley...

All of the major RAF and USAF airbases around the UK, together with key installations such as AWE Aldermaston and AWE Burghfield, are connected to large oil refineries around the coastline using a massive network of underground high pressure pipelines and Petroleum Storage Depots (PSD), referred...

Went down to Cornwall this summer not far from my old uni haunts to check out some derps. Great bits of history amongst an impressive coastal landscape. So here we've got a kind of 2-for-1, a surf n turf so to speak. Both a WW2 Royal Navy refuelling depot, and a Victorian Palmerston fort...

History: The Portsdown Underground Fuel Bunker, in Hampshire, was built during the late 1930s by Sir Robert McAlpine's construction company, as a bombproof oil reservoir to serve the Royal Navy fleet at the base in Portsmouth. This underground storage facility played a vital role in Britain's...

Permission visit to the 237m long Inchindown tanks, there is 6 tanks but only 5 are 237 meters long. Hidden in the hill at about 400th in depth from the Nazis for WW2. New underground tanks was made instead of using the 45 WW1 tanks as bombers advanced enough to make them an easy target. They...

G.P.S.S. (MOD) Fuel Storage Depot, Gloucester - October 2020 So a couple of weeks ago; myself and @mookster made a leisurely journey down to Gloucester after a quick stop off to Go Outdoors so that I could buy myself a pair of wellies for this one! I had been warned; but alas I forgot. The...

So well camouflaged by trees and undergrowth that many locals who have lived in the area all their lives have no idea it is there. Part of the supply network to smaller RAF airstrips throughout the Meriden Rural District during the war: an area that saw a lot of German bombers flying overhead in...

I didn't think it was that long ago that I went here, so there we go! Visited way back when this first opened up and initially we weren't overly impressed as it was a long singular tunnel with a number of small side rooms with valve gear situated in them. It wasn't until one of us disappeared...

Hello lads. It's taken me absolutely ages. But I've finally put out the video on my visit to this fuel depot back in December last year. Little bit of humour, some information I could find, and an overall look around the place. The regular report on the site is here: Report - - RAF Fuel Depot...

Hello lads, it's been a while since I last made a post on here. I've been focused heavily on work and haven't really had the time to do write-ups on here. I've got multiple reports to write, some from as far back as September, so expect a fair amount coming from yours truly over the next few...