Another minor industrial relic on the Manchester Ship Canal.
As the title says, it was a pump house and loading jetty for Ince B power station.
Although the power station is mostly demolished the control block and a few nearby buildings are still standing, and well worth a look.
This much smaller bit was where oil for the station was unloaded from tankers and cooling water was extracted from the canal.
Photos are all phone.
Looking down the jetty, the brick building contains only empty rooms, pictures taken mostly through windows.
This section of the jetty looks like it may still be in use with a pipe leading across the fields to a nearby fertiliser factory.
The pump house seems to have been a supplementary one for topping up cooling water - Ince B had a single fan-assisted cooling tower.
Motors for the three pumps by Allen and Gwynnes who are well known makers of pumps - there’s a huge centrifugal one on the Liverpool Docks made by J & H Gwynne, who became Allen and Gwynnes.
The impellers are probably at the bottom of the intake pipes, under the water.
The brick building is just a single space with electrics for the pumps and a smaller (empty) room for batteries.
And that’s it, not a big place, so a few views to finish.
Back up the canal.
The future of power generation in this region - part of the PROTOS site for turning waste into energy…
…and the Frodsham wind farm next door.
As the title says, it was a pump house and loading jetty for Ince B power station.
Although the power station is mostly demolished the control block and a few nearby buildings are still standing, and well worth a look.
This much smaller bit was where oil for the station was unloaded from tankers and cooling water was extracted from the canal.
Photos are all phone.
Looking down the jetty, the brick building contains only empty rooms, pictures taken mostly through windows.
This section of the jetty looks like it may still be in use with a pipe leading across the fields to a nearby fertiliser factory.
The pump house seems to have been a supplementary one for topping up cooling water - Ince B had a single fan-assisted cooling tower.
Motors for the three pumps by Allen and Gwynnes who are well known makers of pumps - there’s a huge centrifugal one on the Liverpool Docks made by J & H Gwynne, who became Allen and Gwynnes.
The impellers are probably at the bottom of the intake pipes, under the water.
The brick building is just a single space with electrics for the pumps and a smaller (empty) room for batteries.
And that’s it, not a big place, so a few views to finish.
Back up the canal.
The future of power generation in this region - part of the PROTOS site for turning waste into energy…
…and the Frodsham wind farm next door.
