History
Agecroft was a coal fired power station which was directly fed by Agecroft Colliery located across the road. The power station consisted of 3 stations.
A was opened in 1925 and had 4 Metropolitan Vickers generators putting out 57,500Kw.
A video of the opening in 1925
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In 1847, Joseph Watts of Dewsbury and William Stones (1827 -1894) of Sheffield began brewing together at the Cannon Brewery in Sheffield's Shalesmoor district near Kelham Island. ... He renamed it the Cannon Brewery after his original premises.
Stones soon became one of the richest men in...
First explore out with KM punk for a while. This place was quite big so spent an enjoyable few hours here. So long, that we didn’t get time to visit some of the other places on the list.
The Natsopa Memorial Home opened in 1921, a memorial to printers who fell in the great war. At some...
Hey. Sorry i havent post in a while not done much going solo now :/, so if anyone wants a tag along hint hint ha. I dont know any history on this place, The old farmhouse id being renovated but everything else is just left to wander, Kids are using it as a place to mess about in, electricity is...
Allen brickworks. Glazed brick manufacturers established by Henry Victor Allen (1887-1960), when he took over the Halifax Glazed Brickworks in 1905 in the Walterclough Valley. He converted the works to manufacture refractory bricks (glazed bricks able to withstand high temperatures, generally...
I know this has recently been done so ive taken a few different shots, I enjoyed this one a nice big place and your just left to wander freely, Ran into a couple of explorers here from 28 days. tried to convert them ha.
Stones Brewery (William Stones Ltd) was a regional brewery founded in 1868...
these pics was taken bu my not so good camera but was all i had on me :/. i did enjoy being here but extremely gutted about the state its in! theres nothing much but the shell of what was once a nice looking building.
The house was built in 1859 by John Taylor, a manufacturer and dyer of cloth...
I Saw this and i had to go! its a cool little underground hospital bigger than i thought it would be, Really enjoyed this one
The medical centre was part of the Firth Brown's and was used for medicals to look after any injured employees from the factories.
A little history on firth browns...
I'm sure you all know this place first hand, it was a very popular place and it's had a lot of Urbex traffic pass through it.
Visited with Rusty on a Sheffield day trip back in September 2011
A real cool old place, I'm not sure of it's current status.
Took a walk around Newton again today, to see what access was like, still easy as. It was also a visit to see what was happening here, Turns out that they have put in for planning permission to build an "eco" town here, build starts sometime next year, was on the news yesterday, which I missed:(...