Introduction
This is a site I found on satellite imagery a while back, and I thought I’d give it a quick look while me and @V50jake were in the area checking out a few other places.
Information & History
The water treatment plant was used to pump and treat water from the demolished Bayer Agrochemical Facility which was situated to the east of the site. The main facility was demolished in 2010 and was replaced with new housing and flats but the treatment works remains extant in a decaying state.
In the last few years, some effort has been made to demolish part of the site as the old labs and other admin buildings have been taken down, but there are a few bits and pieces which still remain today. There isn’t much more to say about this site in terms of history etc, it’s as exciting as it can get for an old waste water works…
The Explore
It’s a shame to see that some of the site had been demolished when we arrived. The site was easy to access and there were enough things to see and take photos of regardless of the absence of the other buildings and tanks that were demolished. It was a bit of a strange visit though, there was a guy by himself flying a custom-made drone about, and there was also a metal fairy rummaging around some piles of the demolished bits.
I was debating posting this but I do like simple industrial sites like this and I thought it would still be of interest to some even though to many it appears to be quite a ‘basic’ place with little historical interest. There are still a few bits to climb as well and the views from the ladders ain’t too shabby! There’s also a squash court on site but it was very dark and trashed in there so I didn’t get any shots of that.
Onto the photos, starting off which the entry gates which I enjoyed, certainly a nice mix of colours here!
This is my favourite shot of the site, this was near the centre of the works:
Towards the back of the site were some old rusting tanks, I loved the big writing on these, made them feel quite significant in a way:
There were several bits of graffiti on these, but this was my personal favourite piece:
There were plenty of pipes running around the site as well which I thought were pretty cool:
I believe these are carbon filters, but please correct me if I'm wrong!
Here's an overview of most of the site from one of the climbable bits. You can see some of the remains of the demolished buildings from this shot.
There was a small building which had a few nice bits in too:
And finally a selection of other miscellaneous shots of the site...
This is a site I found on satellite imagery a while back, and I thought I’d give it a quick look while me and @V50jake were in the area checking out a few other places.
Information & History
The water treatment plant was used to pump and treat water from the demolished Bayer Agrochemical Facility which was situated to the east of the site. The main facility was demolished in 2010 and was replaced with new housing and flats but the treatment works remains extant in a decaying state.
In the last few years, some effort has been made to demolish part of the site as the old labs and other admin buildings have been taken down, but there are a few bits and pieces which still remain today. There isn’t much more to say about this site in terms of history etc, it’s as exciting as it can get for an old waste water works…
The Explore
It’s a shame to see that some of the site had been demolished when we arrived. The site was easy to access and there were enough things to see and take photos of regardless of the absence of the other buildings and tanks that were demolished. It was a bit of a strange visit though, there was a guy by himself flying a custom-made drone about, and there was also a metal fairy rummaging around some piles of the demolished bits.
I was debating posting this but I do like simple industrial sites like this and I thought it would still be of interest to some even though to many it appears to be quite a ‘basic’ place with little historical interest. There are still a few bits to climb as well and the views from the ladders ain’t too shabby! There’s also a squash court on site but it was very dark and trashed in there so I didn’t get any shots of that.
Onto the photos, starting off which the entry gates which I enjoyed, certainly a nice mix of colours here!
This is my favourite shot of the site, this was near the centre of the works:
Towards the back of the site were some old rusting tanks, I loved the big writing on these, made them feel quite significant in a way:
There were several bits of graffiti on these, but this was my personal favourite piece:
There were plenty of pipes running around the site as well which I thought were pretty cool:
I believe these are carbon filters, but please correct me if I'm wrong!
Here's an overview of most of the site from one of the climbable bits. You can see some of the remains of the demolished buildings from this shot.
There was a small building which had a few nice bits in too:
And finally a selection of other miscellaneous shots of the site...
