WW11 Oil Depot, Ripple , river Severn

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ricasso

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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
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Foam store
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main storage area
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inside shed
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top reads "Russian oil products"
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shower room
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oil unloading area
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unloading platforms
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One of the storage compounds
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PLEASE IGNORE THE SECOND THREAD, MY FAULT, COCKED UP!!!!!
 
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Nice work looks good too a mix of military and industrial. There'll be storage tanks under ground as well!
 
Very interesting site, ricasso. It looks pretty extensive too. Is that a T24 pillbox? It looks it from the front, but can't quite tell without seeing the sides. Excellent find. :)

EDIT: I put front but that's actually the rear. Doh!
 
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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).

Just replied twice,lol.
 
Very interesting site, ricasso. It looks pretty extensive too. Is that a T24 pillbox? It looks it from the front, but can't quite tell without seeing the sides. Excellent find. :)

afraid i dont know foxy, i dont know much if anything about pillboxs, i was hoping the expert (your good self ) would shed some light ! :mrgreen:
 
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).

Just replied twice,lol.

they must be roading it in,there's no sign of the area by the river being in use
 
... i was hoping the expert (your good self ) would shed some light ! :mrgreen:

:lol::lol: I'm not such an expert as Krela, but it does look like a T24. If you remember it having 6 sides and looking slightly quirky, with the rear longer than the other sides, then it definitely is. :mrgreen:
 
Very interesting site, ricasso. It looks pretty extensive too. Is that a T24 pillbox? It looks it from the front, but can't quite tell without seeing the sides. Excellent find. :)

EDIT: I put front but that's actually the rear. Doh!

Foxy, if it's any help it looks square in sat pics. (If I have the right one).
 
Groovy.


I was checking out a similar structure the other day
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Anybody got any ideas as to what they are for. I have my own theory as to there purpose. I have been wrong before.
 
Foxy, if it's any help it looks square in sat pics. (If I have the right one).

They often do for some strange reason...well, oblongish, at any rate. :lol: I just had a check on the link below and the only square one doesn't fit at all (T26, I think...I can never remember that one! :confused: ). I'll stick my neck out and stay with T24. :mrgreen:

http://s134542708.websitehome.co.uk/pillboxes/
 
they often do for some strange reason...well, oblongish, at any rate. :lol: I just had a check on the link below and the only square one doesn't fit at all (t26, i think...i can never remember that one! :confused: ). I'll stick my neck out and stay with t24. :mrgreen:

http://s134542708.websitehome.co.uk/pillboxes/

if its any help foxy, it is square with two embrasures in the front and back walls each.
One embrasure in each side wall,brick pillar in the centre of room :)
 
Groovy.


I was checking out a similar structure the other day
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Anybody got any ideas as to what they are for. I have my own theory as to there purpose. I have been wrong before.

The one in the pic was next to the railway that ran through there, may have been some sort of platform?
 
The one in the pic was next to the railway that ran through there, may have been some sort of platform?

highly likely,would have been ideal for distributing the fuel around the area before bloody Beeching got his hands on the network (dont get me started on THAT particular subject) :mad:
 
Very intersting site ricasso, great pictures. Particularly like that outer fence & loading platforms
 

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