Report - Shotton Jetty Pump House (Flintshire, Aug, 2019)

[urbanchemist]

A pump house and water tank near the Flintshire bridge on the north side of the River Dee.
Built between 1954 and 1963, it presumably served the Shotton (now TATA) steelworks in the days when steel was actually made there.

First the tank, which has several pipes going up one side…

…and a big one coming down the other, now capped at ground level.

No easy way inside so some pictures from on top.

The pump house - one large room and some mostly empty smaller ones.

Nearby, a recent power station and the bridge.

 

[HughieD]

You're really smashing these pump houses at the moment. That's another corker...

 

[tigger]

Some top quality pipework porn there!

 

[mookster]

Lovely stuff!

 

[Bugsuperstar]

Yeah that’s very nice. That tank wouldn’t have been out of place at pyestock with all those big pipes. Just paint them blue.

I like it!

 

[Baggy trousers]

That's awesome and one if love to see! Thanks for posting fella, great set of pictures.

 

[Regcar]

Brilliant photos. Shame that the lovely old Admin Building with the clock tower next door is one the list of 10 most endangered buildings in UK. So much money is wasted on crap, and a decent building is allowed to disappear. I calculate the likely restoration cost to be 2 million, about 0.0031% of HS2 cost. 4+ million was spent on the crappy TY PAWB is nearby Wrexham. A town that could do with some real help.

 

[Esoteric Eric]

Like that a lot!

 

[Speed]

Cool, i kept meaning to go look at that one. Theres some others around there near the papermill that look interesting, still in use tho i think.

 

[urbanchemist]

Cool, i kept meaning to go look at that one. Theres some others around there near the papermill that look interesting, still in use tho i think.

Yes, the UPM one sounds live even if it looks overgrown.

 

[Exploring with Andy]

Some nice pumps there, this is pretty nice!

 

[Calamity Jane]

Quality! really cracking shots, like this a lot

 

[Paradox]

That's cracking, really liking this