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

Wheels, theres flippin loads of em:

Fire bucket:

Drag under, sounds painful:

Pipes pipes everywhere:

Counterweight:

Rate:

Wires, pipes, counterweights and wheels:

The safety harness box needs a safety harness:

I might need some training to NVQ level 5, these controls look tricky:

The chain:

Conveyor:

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

Ian