Coalite Chemicals - Shuttlewood November 2012

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Hi all,

First post on here so please be gentle :)

My dad used to contract lorries to Coalite to move lime mud from the Chemical side to the coking plant side, I spend many a happy Saturday down there as a kid with him in the cab so it was great to be back on the site.

Security is still immense considering it is over eight years since it closed down and a good half of the site has been demolished there are still three guys on site 24/7 and they are really proactive so I spent most of my visit on Sunday playing cat and mouse.

Hope you enjoy and I'd appreciate any feedback.

Cheers

Mat





























































Thanks for looking!
 
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Nice report fella, good snaps too, captured it well.

I wonder why they have 3 guards for a trashed half demolished site. A bit of loyalty shown to old staff or a completly seperate security company?
 
Its a private security firm... I don't think its so much anything of value, more that its a really dangerous sites. There's chemicals everywhere, hundreds of barrels in the two warehouse type buildings to the west of the site all marked up with hazchem labels. Coalite was repeatedly prosecuted by HSE for dodgy waste disposal, polluting incinerators and dumping dioxins into the Doe Lea etc and when they finally went into administration they pretty much just locked the gates and walked away leaving 80 years of contamination in situ lol.

Two days after wandering around the site the soles of my shoes have carbonated and are crumbling so god only knows what I paddled through lol.
 
Ah, makes sense. Limiting the risk of kids playing and suing in the morning when limbs fall off.

Must be dangerous for that many staff securing the place.

Thanks again fella.

Good stuff.
 
Stunning set of photos, impressive first report, looking forward to seein more! Cheers for sharing!
 
Excellent 1st report that mate. Really enjoyed that. Love the fire station and secca hut shots. Not hard to see why there's 24/7 security with all the contamination about.

There was a dye plant near me that got demo'd a couple of years ago and because of all the chemicals the land is still badly contaminated.
 
Thanks very much chaps... you would have thought their enthusiasm would have died down after eight years but no such luck lol!
 
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Really good first report, pretty shocking they left so much contaminated materials behind, the site will probably never developed cause of it.
 
This place has a palpable post-apocalyptic feel (apart from the shots with electric light, of course).

Good first report, I enjoyed it!

:)
 
Worked (breifly) for Coalite Chemicals in the building with the "CC" on it back in the early 1990s.

As has been said, the site is heavily polluted: decontaminating it will cost someone a fortune.
 

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