This is the building with the water tower on top, full of Barcol stuff that did not sell at auction and not worth the trouble to scrap.
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Note the tiled floor between the bucket conveyors and an old mill.
A wooden mold sitting outside of the foundry.
Colors of the boiler room.
The coal extractor swings back and forth, ripping coal from the ground and throwing it on a conveyor belt to be burned a few miles away.
On my first self-guided tour, the calculator was caught my eye because it was one of the few things left behind in the laboratories that filled the second floor. On my next trip, it had been smashed to pieces.
The steam-powered hoist that pulled ore and dropped men from the mine. Note the hydraulic-operated brake on top with its massive brake pad. Now scrapped.
A typical room in Birtle.
Far above the areas that were heavily scrapped, I found some old bottles to collect samples of the sour mash whiskey as it made its was from the distillation room to barrel filling.
The generator room was state of the art when it was installed, allowing the complex to use motors and electric lighting ahead of its competitors.