lostock

Well, it has been a while. Life has largely prevented me from doing much in the way of exploring, but this summer I have managed to get to look at two small but marginally interesting features local to me. Feature 1, the River Lostock Culvert. When the M65 was built a lot of farmland was...

History Brief history: This used to be a oil, then coal, fired power station which would provide electricity to the neighbouring chemical works, now TATA Chemicals. It seems as though the current plans for the site are to build a waste purification plant that will burn pretreated waste and feed...

I was very late to the party on this, in fact the demolition process was (eventually) just starting. I thought I could probably lay claim on being the last one to explore this wonderful old coal-fired monolith, unused since 2000. But then a pandemic happened and I guess demolition may have been...

History Being a fairly small private power station there isn't a lot of history available online about this particular site. It was constructed in the 1950s by Imperial Chemical Industries to supply heat and electricity to their chemical works next door, still in operation by TATA Chemicals. The...

Lostock Power Station, originally owned by Bowman Thompson & Company, was one of the UK's last remaining coal-fired power stations. It was later sold to Brunner Mond in 1900 and produced sixty tonnes of soda ash a day, increasing to 800 tonnes a day by 1926 with all of the Brunner Mond assets...

This week's installment from the archive is topical as the building is due to be demolished. Built by ICI to power it's Lostock plant, which is part of the greater works of Burnner Mond Alkali works. At the time of my visit I didn't really know that much about Brunner Mond or soda ash, or in...

History It is one of the UK's last coal-fired power stations, it shut down in 2000 and planning permission has been granted for a new plant to be built on the site extracting energy from waste. When E.ON built their Combined Heat & Power plant at Winnington in 2000, Lostock was decommissioned...

To be honest, we thought this one was long gone like the similar sites in it's close vicinity. Therefore, when it cropped up suddenly, we made sure to get it done because there is a quickly disappearing amount of abandoned power stations in England. Lostock Power Station Bowman, Thompson & Co...

Bowman, Thompson & Co. originally owned the site, but it was sold to Brunner Mond in 1990. With a seven year closure the site was reconstructed, afterwards producing sixty tonnes of soda ash a day. This figure later rose to 800 tonnes a day in 1926, with all of the Brunner Mond assets then being...

A school which closed in 2010 due to the expansion of another local school. Built in the Victorian era it's certainly seen better days! Here's how it looked before it closed! And here's how it looks now!

We decided to go in just after it went dark, about 6pm. After spending about half an hour dodging security and finding an access point we made it into the grounds. The area was blanketed in fog for miles which made finding our way around the site was abit difficult. On one face of the building...

History Bowman Thompson & Company originally owned the site but was sold in 1900 to Brunner Mond whom with a seven year closure reconstructed the site producing sixty tonnes of soda ash a day. This figure rose to 800 tonnes a day in 1926 with all of the Brunner Mond assets being turned over...

History Bowman Thompson & Company originally owned the site but was sold in 1900 to Brunner Mond whom with a seven year closure reconstructed the site producing sixty tonnes of soda ash a day. This figure rose to 800 tonnes a day in 1926 with all of the Brunner Mond assets being turned over to...

Lostock Power Station   The Explore..   Visited with @Urbexbandoned. Left Lincoln early and the car thermometer was reading -4.5C, then when we arrived at Lostock it had only climbed half a degree. We had a bit of prior info from @macc_explore so thanks for that mate. Quite a bit of ducking...

Not got much history on the place, sorry guys. Decommissioned in 2000 due to new plant being built in Winnington, and is due to be flattened to make way for a new energy plant. Visited at night with a group of 5, inc. myself. Once you're in its incredibly easy to get around the building...