Without their walls these Solvent Recovery Line buildings look like blast walls. Their concrete inner structures were part of the design so if there was an explosion inside it would ‘blow out’ with a puff instead of a bang. Now most of these are demolished or overgrown.
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A side view of the oven pusher from the ground. The tallest coal bunker looks tiny in the distance, though on the scale of the factory it’s practically on top of me as I’m taking the picture.
Outside the Chateau, where the fuel oil tank blocks the chapel.
One of a few rolling workbenches to keep the thousands of pulleys, cogs, and belts working properly.
To get more light into the wards, the building was narrow and had angular rooms, often staff space, perpendicular to the main hallway.
The former express concourse, as seen in 2005.
The small door leads to the offices, the large door leads to the shop. My back at this time is to the corrugated steel wall. At the time I wondered why there was just one steel wall, not knowing that 40 years before there was another spot for an engine here. This section of the roundhouse has become a sort of town dump–car seats, cans of paint and tires are piled into its corners.
From the street, it’s clear that almost every window and door had boards over it, but not every building had a roof. Silly priorities.
Looking at the headframe for Shaft 3 from the tower for Shaft 1. Below is the roof of the Dry House. It was hard to remind myself that these building have been abandoned longer than I’ve been alive.
“Paint the fence,” they said, but I don’t feel like it… who cares, anyway.