Hams Hall - Power Station Control Room

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Reaperman

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Dave and Myself stopped in here the other week, Its somwhere we had been wanting to look at since this post back in August: [ame]http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=12292[/ame] With a few days in the midlands we were very glad that we made time, The control room itself is great, The ceiling light is really unique, the lens glass seems to be custom moulded to throw out light evenly into the control pannels. There's a wealth of GEGB era paper work dotted about.

Sadly when we got inside much of the place was in a bit of a state, so we actually spent most of our time attempting to make the control room look presentable, removing much of the rubbish and putting the oak desk back up the right way and in its correct place.

Dave has been doing the research on the place so I will leave the specific history for him to post up. I had hoped this was going to be one of a series of control stations around the country but it seems it may be unique after all.

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I love control rooms that look like they're from an episode of Thunderbirds or something :mrgreen:

Great pics!
 
Excellant find there..never heard of these control rooms before,and look forward to seeing the history.
 
That ceiling is STUNNING! Such a contrast to what you'd expect to see, going on the outside. My Dad's Uncle worked here around the 1940's & '50's. I'll see if anyone has any info (or even better, some photos)

Thanks for posting :)
 
Fantastic pics reaperman, I thought control rooms like that only existed in the movies wow.
 
pitty there isnt more of these places out there. these are definaltly the best pictures of it ive seen.
 
I trained on control systems and power electronics at college and some of the site visits we did back then (mid eighties) were to control rooms not unlike that. I love that Homer Simpson desk in the middle of the room.

That's right I went to college to learn to be Homer. I just tripled my productivity Mrs doesn't find me sexually attractive any more.
 
what a lovely looking place that must have been to work in, nice pictures :)
 
Looks a brilliant little explore! Like an above post said it doesent look at all exciting from the outside but on the inside, oh my

We're the pics taken using the camera you bought to Hellingly? They came out well
 

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