British Celanese Apr 2015

[Dmax]

British Celanese is a chemical company based at Spondon in Derbyshire.

The site was constructed between 1916-1918 by Sir Robert McAlpine with £5million provided by the War Office.

Over 30million bricks were used in the construction the original site covered 121 hectares.

British Celanese was the first factory in Britain to produce propylene and from it isopropyl alcohol and acetone in 1942.

In 1957, British Celanese was taken over by Courtaulds.

The plant finally closed on Wednesday 14 November 2012 but a few parts seem to be still live.

the electric supply was still on in a lot of the parts we got into so turning the lights on made taking photos quite easy

This place is big , theres a on site power station but we did not get in as it looked like it was well belled up.

 

[Urbexbandoned]

This is nice mate, I do like those controls!

Thanks for sharing

 

[The_Raw]

I'm not impressed with myself for missing this although I believe there are still a few bits left. That control panel

 

[Lenston]

Great images there mate

 

[skeleton key]

I know people who have traveled a few hundred miles to capture that control panel as theres a control panel fetish out there for sure

yet another looking good Mr Max your on a roll there mate

 

[mookster]

The power station is rather nice but the last time someone attempted it, lets just say it didn't end well.

 

[Dmax]

yeah the station is belled up

 

[darbians]

Sweet shots. A great place and it got ignored by many. I reset alarms on that control panel

Also may of ran away from that power station pretty quick, well until I fell over!!

I want to know if any body got those substations done. The one I see looked like the switch room (as DMax informed me) at Battersea.

 

[hamtagger]

theres a control panel fetish out there for sure

Don't know what you mean

Another nice set there mate

 

[Perjury Saint]

Crackin set that man!