I've been told this is in the process of demolition, so I thought I'd stick some photos up of our visit this year.
@dave put a very informative thread up on this some years ago, and I will include one of the replies to that thread below as I very much enjoyed reading it.
It's an odd one this place, I'm not sure why it still exists. I can only assume the long shed made convenient covered storage or something and the offices and welfare buildings attached survived as a result of that. Upon first glance it looks nothing more than a disheveled shed with some ruinous rooms off one side. Although this is the case, there was actually plenty left from it's working life if one took the time to look. The workshops were particularly interesting, with some machinery remaining and plenty of BSC tat lying around. Upstairs had very much been reclaimed by nature but the dated décor was still there to see. The welfare block still retained it's 'colliery style' lockers, with soap dishes and even some personal effects like combs and bars of soap still inside. The whole bank of lockers slowly sinking into the floor as it rots away from the ground up. One of the things that made the place special was it's location had offered it a lot of protection from the usual visitors to derelict buildings, meaning most of the damage was natural decay, no smashed windows or graffiti.
Everything in the whole ground floor was covered in strange dunes of coal dust, presumably blown in from the nearby coke ovens. In one room, brushing these dunes aside revealed almost perfectly preserved steel related paperwork, quite amazing when upon first glance the building appeared to be ruinous!
The building from the pipeline
A Massey hammer in the workshops
Workshop general view
The main shed
Old sign buried in the coal dust dunes... "CAREERS IN STEEL"
The dunes... note the radiators above. The whole building was flanked with them
A good example of the depth of the dust dunes!
Lockers. Note the stainless steel mirrors.
General offices. Really going back to nature
Under the sink in the staff toilets, a mop head sits on a tin of Janitol, where it has lay for probably longer than I have been alive!
Staff toilets - peeley!
The stairs to the offices, note the round skylights - very of the period
I think this had been mechanical maintenance and stores
Another separate welfare block
Store room, lots of BSC paperwork in here.
From the top of the crane
We spent a considerable amount of time in here and I really enjoyed it.
@dave put a very informative thread up on this some years ago, and I will include one of the replies to that thread below as I very much enjoyed reading it.
It's an odd one this place, I'm not sure why it still exists. I can only assume the long shed made convenient covered storage or something and the offices and welfare buildings attached survived as a result of that. Upon first glance it looks nothing more than a disheveled shed with some ruinous rooms off one side. Although this is the case, there was actually plenty left from it's working life if one took the time to look. The workshops were particularly interesting, with some machinery remaining and plenty of BSC tat lying around. Upstairs had very much been reclaimed by nature but the dated décor was still there to see. The welfare block still retained it's 'colliery style' lockers, with soap dishes and even some personal effects like combs and bars of soap still inside. The whole bank of lockers slowly sinking into the floor as it rots away from the ground up. One of the things that made the place special was it's location had offered it a lot of protection from the usual visitors to derelict buildings, meaning most of the damage was natural decay, no smashed windows or graffiti.
Everything in the whole ground floor was covered in strange dunes of coal dust, presumably blown in from the nearby coke ovens. In one room, brushing these dunes aside revealed almost perfectly preserved steel related paperwork, quite amazing when upon first glance the building appeared to be ruinous!
The building from the pipeline
A Massey hammer in the workshops
Workshop general view
The main shed
Old sign buried in the coal dust dunes... "CAREERS IN STEEL"
The dunes... note the radiators above. The whole building was flanked with them
A good example of the depth of the dust dunes!
Lockers. Note the stainless steel mirrors.
General offices. Really going back to nature
Under the sink in the staff toilets, a mop head sits on a tin of Janitol, where it has lay for probably longer than I have been alive!
Staff toilets - peeley!
The stairs to the offices, note the round skylights - very of the period
I think this had been mechanical maintenance and stores
Another separate welfare block
Store room, lots of BSC paperwork in here.
From the top of the crane
We spent a considerable amount of time in here and I really enjoyed it.
