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TK421

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Hi there,

I first visited this site a year or so ago, but could not get into the oil seed refinery. Then a few weeks ago I was visiting with Dobbo79 and found a way in, however like to total tw*t I had left my camera battery on charge at home, 40 mins away! Anyhow it had been bothering me that I had yet to see the great hall in this wonderful time locked industrial peice of wonderfulness, so at a ridiculously early time this rainy bank holiday I set off on my own for one last try. Dobbo79 was working so I did this one on my own, don't feel too sorry for her, she is getting time & a half!! After a crawl through undergrowth and through nail and sharp glass filled openings that threatened to remove my nuts I finally made it. This place stinks at the best of times, but when its wet it takes on a totally new level of stench, I stopped noticing it after a while, I think my nasal senses had burned out!!

Anyway, enough idle banter, here is the good stuff:

The main hall:
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Wheels, theres flippin loads of em:
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Fire bucket:
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Drag under, sounds painful:
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Pipes pipes everywhere:
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Counterweight:
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Rate:
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Wires, pipes, counterweights and wheels:
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The safety harness box needs a safety harness:
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I might need some training to NVQ level 5, these controls look tricky:
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The chain:
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Conveyor:
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Your history:

The British Oil and Cake Maunfacturers based in Barlby, near Selby is a site of two halfs. The active (but looks derelict) site is on one side of the railway to Hull, the other very derelict half of the oil seed refinery is on 't'other side. The site extracted oil from rapeseed to produce animal feeds on a large scale, the main process used being solvent extraction using hexane which is then recovered by distillation. It was once rail served and the little signal box that controls the road between the two plants is still in place. The site closed during 2003 with the loss of 40 jobs.

Hope you like them, and if you want to see some more, you know where to look:mrgreen:

Ian
 
OI :mad:
I may be getting time and a half but i would much rather be mooching lol

Great pics there mate....jealous....MUCHLY!!! :lol: Maybe if id have got my fat ass in you wouldnt have needed another visit pmsl..

Nah seriously great pics hun...well done - i just love the second one with the wheels :)
 
good find and worth the wait. old fire buckets are common enough but the fire bucket holder there is class
 
cheers 'themousepolice', there are those holders all over the site, it just adds to the general charm of the place, if you ignore the stink!

they were an unusual design. notice the hook underneath... built to hold two buckets, one with sand for electrical fires, the other with salt water for general stuff. never caught on as they just became large ash trays. not that i have a secret fire bucket bracket fetish or anything, just nice to see the variety. i vote this 'posting of the month for may 2011'. hip hip hooray for tk421
 
they were an unusual design. notice the hook underneath... built to hold two buckets, one with sand for electrical fires, the other with salt water for general stuff. never caught on as they just became large ash trays. not that i have a secret fire bucket bracket fetish or anything, just nice to see the variety. i vote this 'posting of the month for may 2011'. hip hip hooray for tk421

I remember those double buckets on the tube. The one full of sand always had ciggie dimps in it. As late as the early 80's I recall.
 
I worked in a 5 storey textile Mill building from '78 to '80 and we had those buckets all over the place. They all had their little dog-ends standing upright in them. Interestingly it was a firm winding copper for solenoids in a building still full of the remnants of the machinery that drove the Mill in it's heyday. I didn't appreciate the contrast then as I do now.

Great post TK421, evocative place. :)
 


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