Quencher

Left: A medium storage chamber with access to an interconnecting steam tunnel at ceiling height. This room also has various smashed toilets. Why? Because dead toilets–all of them–always find a home in a cave. Center: Steps go past a +-intersection, left goes deeper, right goes to utility tunnels for the brewery, forward used to go to the brewery basement… it’s now backfilled. Left from the backfill is a small hallway; see ‘Backfill Self Portrait’. Center-Right: Utility tunnels tie knots between the brewery’s demolished basement and its caves. Right: Most of the storage volume is in large chambers down this causeway.

The dredge is divided into four levels. The top level has controls for the tailings boom and, when it was there, the bucket excavator.

The Cross of Loraine served as the international symbol of tuberculosis; it was traditional to find these on sanatorium smokestacks like this, which was part of the old steam plant, behind the Refractory.

Looking toward the Quenching Tower from the coal tower platform.

An iron gate separates vaults below the barracks.

An exit from the concourse.

The orange bars were secured to the tunnel walls to support electric lines for the mine carts. Lower parts of the sand mines were allowed to flood. The water was perfectly still, and made for a mud so thick it could suck off your boots.

Blending the explosive ingredients was dangerous. It is no wonder that the blending house had so many emergency slides.

The historic entrance of the mill, alongside the (relatively) new Great Western offices.