This trip was Daylighting's idea, and it was a good one - it's been a while since my last trip, and it was very good to see the old place again before demolition gets too far along.
For those who don't know (where have you been?) Inverkip is a large oil-fired power station on the Firth of Clyde, built just before the oil crisis of the '70s it was always a bit of a white elephant and only briefly reached full capacity during the miner's strikes.
First visit, while waiting for dawn, was to the control room:
Some rooms alongside the control room:
With dawn, we could see what we were doing, so we started with the top of the boiler houses and worked downwards.
Down to the boiler level:
Next, the turbine house:
Finally, some dismantling - these are giant valves from one of the turbines.
All the rest of my Inverkip photos are in my Flickr set...
For those who don't know (where have you been?) Inverkip is a large oil-fired power station on the Firth of Clyde, built just before the oil crisis of the '70s it was always a bit of a white elephant and only briefly reached full capacity during the miner's strikes.
First visit, while waiting for dawn, was to the control room:
Some rooms alongside the control room:
With dawn, we could see what we were doing, so we started with the top of the boiler houses and worked downwards.
Down to the boiler level:
Next, the turbine house:
Finally, some dismantling - these are giant valves from one of the turbines.
All the rest of my Inverkip photos are in my Flickr set...
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