September 2024
The Visit
Visited with @Mr Budge and @MotionlessMike during a three-day tour of Scotland, we arrived at the site quite early and soon found ourselves navigating through a narrow entrance. The structure was impressive, showcasing a captivating level of natural decay. We started...
The Kingsnorth power station was a 2000MW dual fired station situated in the River Medway estuary. This was an ideal location as it allowed coal to be brought in by sea.
Another Location I was shown by @Exploring With Pride 🌈 whilst down in Kent, making good use of his boat on a gorgeous day...
Introduction
Whilst searching around a while back for places around Scotland, I came across the Barony A-frame on Google Maps, I then noticed a large derelict building in the trees. After doing some research, I discovered that this was an old power station, or part thereof. The last report on...
ALIENWORKS POWER STATION
THE HISTORY:
All history from @Grom
This small power station in France was once surrounded by a sprawling ironworks was built to provide power for all the local heavy industry. The Cast Iron factories began in the late 1890s, to support this the coal powered power...
BARKING CONTROL ROOM
THE HISTORY:
Barking A Power Station was opened by King George V in 1925 and boasted eight small Parsons turbines. It was designed to take over from Barking Town Urban District Council’s power station and, at the time of construction, was the largest plant in Britain to...
The Five Sisters, still towering over the Derbyshire countryside 20 years after the power station was demolished... Hopefully they stay for many years to come...
The History -
Been covered many times before, so I'll try and keep it brief
Willington Power Station was a coal fired power station...
An old but gold one and was certainly a fun stealth mission haha. I arrived at the site on a dull grey Monday morning, hopped the gate and the games began! Working my way through where the 8 cooling towers once stood, there were 3 workers on cherry pickers drilling into the chimney to my left...
This is a follow-up to my previous report on this site:
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/the-coal-valley-power-plant-mines-more-spain-january-2022.131783/
The place was so huge that on our first visit we didn't manage to see the old part of the power station, so here we go... we started...
Wangi Wangi Power Station - the biggest and most iconic explore in Australia
History
Wangi Power Station is a heritage-listed former coal-fired power station at Wangi Wangi, City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales (Australia). The power station operated between 1956 and 1986 and supplied...
History:
This power plant dates back to the begin of the 1950s, the reason for this was due to a big modernization the paper mill was in at this time. So a stunning minty miniature power house was made. The power station worked on coal, and was meant to be used as a backup for when the nearby...
Eggborough Power Station
I had been wanting to do Eggborough power station ever since it closed. However back then I was still exploring knackered houses every weekend and considered this to be impossible. As nearly a year passed by I had started upping my game and doing much better locations...
After scaling Littlebrook's chimney three times over the summer with several mates, and snapping roughly 70 odd shots, I've finally decided to post a few of them...
After dealing with the copious amounts of dust, pigeon shite, grease and god knows what else on the chimney's 800 step staircase...