Big Mary
Member
Brett Oils
Well it's been a long time since I posted to this site (been on a journey of life and discovery and that) so please bare with me until I suss the buttons and knobs.
Seeing as it's my first post back, I might as well come in with a bang!
This is Brett Oils on Gateshead Quayside. The complex stands along Pipewellgate beside modern buildings and under the shadow of The High Level Bridge.
This is a set of images from some years back. They show what the inside looked, and probably still looks like.
The site and land has had several uses over the years including a manure works. The history varies and if anyone wants to add to the historical side then please do
I'll explain what the images each show. The thread is slightly pic heavy but I know will fascinate you. This post is unique - there are no other images of the works to my knowledge.
Let us begin..
This is where the works started their oil 'process'. The oil came in as a 'base' and in bulk. Various chemicals and additives are added to a quantity of base in a large vat and stirred until the correct blend is reached. This could create diesel engine oil or machining oil or gearbox oil etc. By varying additives they reached the correct tolerances required.
This shows the same area from the side. Several 'mixes' could be on the go at any one time. Notice the lower mixing vats - ancient and originally driven via a wheel shaft behind.
Most of the vat filling process was done manually via rubber hoses. I can't help but think they sometimes got mixed up!
One of the old mixing vats close up.
Sterile equipment was always used when measuring out additives.
Health and safety at work is very important.
Large metal containers were sometimes used to add the erm.. additives.
Once the oil was made to the correct consistency it would be piped away to another room.
This is the bulk oil storage room. Once oil was 'made' it was sent here. Each tank holds thousands of litres of manufactured oil with each tank holding a different type. It would be stored here until it was sent to a packaging line.
Milking anyone?
The site is in sections or departments.
Oh aye? Sneaky steps up..
The steps led to a workers rest room.
Back to the oil works. This is where the packaging equipment stood. It had gone by the time I got in.
Remnants from the packaging line.
The final stage - warehouse. Nothing left basically.
Finally the delivery vehicles fuel supply. My favourite piece in there.
Hopefully after sussing all of that posting I've not broken the forum.
Brett Oils is a strange one. Dereliction in what is fast becoming a beautiful quayside (nothing wrong with dereliction!). There are indeed plans to develop the site and with several submissions in with Gateshead Council. It'll be interesting to see what becomes of this site..
Thanks for looking everyone
Well it's been a long time since I posted to this site (been on a journey of life and discovery and that) so please bare with me until I suss the buttons and knobs.
Seeing as it's my first post back, I might as well come in with a bang!
This is Brett Oils on Gateshead Quayside. The complex stands along Pipewellgate beside modern buildings and under the shadow of The High Level Bridge.
This is a set of images from some years back. They show what the inside looked, and probably still looks like.
The site and land has had several uses over the years including a manure works. The history varies and if anyone wants to add to the historical side then please do
I'll explain what the images each show. The thread is slightly pic heavy but I know will fascinate you. This post is unique - there are no other images of the works to my knowledge.
Let us begin..
This is where the works started their oil 'process'. The oil came in as a 'base' and in bulk. Various chemicals and additives are added to a quantity of base in a large vat and stirred until the correct blend is reached. This could create diesel engine oil or machining oil or gearbox oil etc. By varying additives they reached the correct tolerances required.
This shows the same area from the side. Several 'mixes' could be on the go at any one time. Notice the lower mixing vats - ancient and originally driven via a wheel shaft behind.
Most of the vat filling process was done manually via rubber hoses. I can't help but think they sometimes got mixed up!
One of the old mixing vats close up.
Sterile equipment was always used when measuring out additives.
Health and safety at work is very important.
Large metal containers were sometimes used to add the erm.. additives.
Once the oil was made to the correct consistency it would be piped away to another room.
This is the bulk oil storage room. Once oil was 'made' it was sent here. Each tank holds thousands of litres of manufactured oil with each tank holding a different type. It would be stored here until it was sent to a packaging line.
Milking anyone?
The site is in sections or departments.
Oh aye? Sneaky steps up..
The steps led to a workers rest room.
Back to the oil works. This is where the packaging equipment stood. It had gone by the time I got in.
Remnants from the packaging line.
The final stage - warehouse. Nothing left basically.
Finally the delivery vehicles fuel supply. My favourite piece in there.
Hopefully after sussing all of that posting I've not broken the forum.
Brett Oils is a strange one. Dereliction in what is fast becoming a beautiful quayside (nothing wrong with dereliction!). There are indeed plans to develop the site and with several submissions in with Gateshead Council. It'll be interesting to see what becomes of this site..
Thanks for looking everyone