Tag : Crane

Brent Delta Oil Platform

Brent Delta Oil Production Platform

Brent Delta was one of four oil production platforms servicing the Brent oilfield off the coast of Scotland from 1977 until 2016.

HFX Blast Furnaces and Steelworks, France

Florange Blast Furnaces (HFX) and Steel Works, France

A huge abandoned steel works in France with three blast furnaces and a railway station full of wagons.

Redcar Steelworks Power Station, Middlesborough, UK

Redcar Steelworks Power Station, Teesside, UK

The power station provided electricity to the Teesside Steelworks at Redcar. It was fuelled from by-products of the steel making processes.

Royal Aircraft Establishment RAE Bedford, Thurleigh

RAE Bedford Wind Tunnel Site, Thurleigh, UK

A former aircraft testing and development establishment where huge wind tunnels were used.

Thamesteel Steel Works, Sheerness

Thamesteel Steel Works, Sheerness, UK

Opening in 1972 the steelworks in Sheerness incorporated steel production furnaces and a large rolling mill. The site closed in 2012.

SM Steel Works, Belgium

S.M. Steel Works, Belgium

A modern steel works in Belgium that has only recently closed. Lights, computers and machines still operate around the site.

Kraftwerk V Power Plant Germany

Kraftwerk Vockerode, Abandoned Power Plant, Germany

A huge abandoned power plant in Germany with a seriously epic control room.

Climbing A Tower Crane

Towering High – Climbing a Tower Crane, UK

Climbing to the top of a tower crane, high above a building site somewhere in the UK, to take in the views in all directions.

Zeche M Heinz Bergwerk Coal Mine, Germany

Bergwerk West Friedrich-Heinrich, Germany

Zeche M / Zeche Heinz is the above-ground coal processing complex of an abandoned coal mine in Germany.

Globe Worsted Mills

Globe Worsted Mills, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield

Globe Mills were built in 1887-9 by the newly established Globe Worsted company of Slaithwaite in the Clone Valley near Huddersfield. The site is now being redeveloped.