The Site
Dating back to 1874 these works have produced sodium carbonate common in cleaning products, dyes, fertilizers and other such products.
The works have been operated under Brunner Mond, Imperial Chemical Industries, and TATA Chemical Europe. The works were also responsible for...
History
The building this report is based on is the old art deco Filter House. The building housed all of the equipment and tanks that were needed to complete the chemical filtration process. It also contained a laboratory which was used to handle chemicals and conduct tests, to ensure the...
This was the second stop of out Sunday trip.
I have to say I do love a good bit of industrial filth.
History -
Originally owned by Price's Patent Candle Company. In 1853, Palm oil was brought into Liverpool and so the company needed a site to use the palm oil closer to Liverpool than taking...
A bit of History:
The plant started operating in 1855 and employed over 2000 workers at the hight of its trade. It has had other names over the years but Croda being the most commonly known in recent times. The plant unfortunately closed in 2009, which did cause over 100 staff to loose their...
THE HISTORY
Croda was originally owned by Price's Patent Candle Company. In 1853, Palm oil was brought into Liverpool and so the company needed a site to use the palm oil closer to Liverpool than taking it to London by boat. The company build what is now Bromborough Pool village and opened a...
visited the croda chemical plant myself @woopashoopaa @Telf @the Kwan and thanks to Kwan for giving us the tour of this huge site. Covered the whole site apart from the one with the clock tower and it did look rather good. We had heard that security patrolled the site on a motorbike we did here...
Gonna keep this short as im using the on screen keyboard
-_- but posted a report here a while back and we finally got to go in the light.
visited with Raz
Enjoy
This Mill was originally one of Essex’s watermills. It closed in 1926, when the town waterworks was built on the site. The waterworks became redundant in 1984 when the town was supplied from another pumping station further down the River. It has been sat alone and empty since 1984. Beautiful...
Hello OS. I've done a report on this place already, I know.. But there's a few photos I didn't add and i've had a few more visits since then
:D (I can't keep away). Demolition here is well underway and it won't be long until all of the disused areas are just waste, and I'm pretty sad to see...
Hello again! Finally covered most of this site after about three six hour visits, it's MASSIVE!
:D I loved this place, plenty to see and there's always the chance of some action :thumb Overall a great explore! Demolition is soon to be in full swing sadly, I'll miss the place.Visited earlier...
Ok trip out with Critical Mass,Hanel Dante & Host to a partly demoed chemical plant
After a while trudging through mud and reeds we had a small climb to make then on site ,a pretty relaxed explore but this site has its obstacles.....on with the pics
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