WW11 Oil Depot, Ripple , river Severn

This storage depot is located just downstream from Upton on Severn near the village of Ripple, it covers quite a large site and borders a gravel extraction operation.
apparently oil was transported up the river on barges and unloaded into large underground tanks for storage and distribution.
interestingly this was the last large scale use of barge transport on the river.
it looks semi maintained but definitely not in use

pillbox on site





Foam store





One of the storage compounds

Ripple Store.

I think they are storing diesel there at the moment, used to be petrol in the mid1980,s.
There was also some tank cleaning going on in 2006 in the area 450 metres east of the loading jetty. (buried square tanks).

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sorry damn laptop has gone doolally over christmas

Could krela or somebody please delete this particular thread to stop any confusion, thanks, mike