History
Bowman Thompson & Company originally owned the site but was sold in 1900 to Brunner Mond whom with a seven year closure reconstructed the site producing sixty tonnes of soda ash a day. This figure rose to 800 tonnes a day in 1926 with all of the Brunner Mond assets being turned over...
Lostock Power Station
The Explore..
Visited with @Urbexbandoned. Left Lincoln early and the car thermometer was reading -4.5C, then when we arrived at Lostock it had only climbed half a degree. We had a bit of prior info from @macc_explore so thanks for that mate. Quite a bit of ducking...
Explored with Raz
Background;
Bowman Thompson & Company originally owned the site but was sold in 1900 to Brunner Mond whom with a seven year closure reconstructed the site producing sixty tonnes of soda ash a day. This figure rose to 800 tonnes a day in 1926 with all of the Brunner Mond...
This was the first visit of 3 yesterday, we may have got here a little early as it was pitch black and had to wait around for an hour or so for the sun to come up.
History -
Bowman Thompson & Company originally owned the site but was sold in 1900 to Brunner Mond whom with a seven year...
closed in the 2000s , may be turned into waste incineration plant
still has the turbines and other machinary in place
plenty of control rooms and pannels dials and guages
nice layer of bird poo is collecting now
visited with the elusive
may be a bit pic heavy as there was so much to look at...