Thamesteel , South East, April 15

The steel mill was established in 1972, designed to recycle scrap steel into rods and coils. It survived a number of closure threats and changes of ownership; from 2003 it was operated by Thamesteel , Thamesteel went into administration in January 2012, with the loss of 350 jobs. Six months later, the plant was bought back by the former owners Al-Tuwairqi Group. As of October 2014 there are plans to reopen the plant as a rolling mill. After seeing Mikeymutt's fantastic report, I had to go and see this incredible place for myself, with the able bodied MO2W, To date this is the biggest site I have ever explored. Txt taken from wiki. The pics



























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Nice report there..that is quite a collapse in there..glad I just missed that

Nice place....on my to do list....looks vast! Thanks

Mikeymutt said:

Nice report there..that is quite a collapse in there..glad I just missed that

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Thanks Mikey, yes it's a very recent collapse.

brickworx said:

Nice place....on my to do list....looks vast! Thanks

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It was vast Brickworx, much more than I thought!

Very nice Shuckie,I was born on the Island and remember the place being opened.What I remember of the place is the noise as tons of scrap steel at a time was dropped into a chute to be fed to the furnace,the racket coild be heard half a mile away

Ah nice one! I was only just reading, there were special Sheerness scrap trains laid on to bring scrap from all over the UK!

What a huge site!Superb shots thanks for sharing.

Nice One Shuck, The shot of the light bulbs with the aerosol can in the background confused me for second, I was thinking what the feck are those tower's, Should have gone to Specsavers, I enjoyed looking, Thanks

Not a problem Smiler. The aerosols were actually in one of the control cabins.

Looks an epic explore
good work BS

The Wombat said:

Looks an epic explore
good work BS

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Twas indeed Wombat! A 3am start!

Fantastic photos as usual Shucky! Glad to hear Mo2w is back out too!
Brilliant as always, thanks for sharing

UrbanX said:

Fantastic photos as usual Shucky! Glad to hear Mo2w is back out too!
Brilliant as always, thanks for sharing

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Us old farts still have the flame burning X! Was a very comedic entrance using overweight middleage ninja skills... ie scale a small iron fence and fall off the other side in a heap ! Plenty of padding though for a soft landing!

Great report. Inspiring. It is as huge as it looks.

Cheers Stufisi'h. Yes it IS as big as it looks. And bigger!... I've done a few industrial explores in my time, but this one was the biggest by far.

Nice report there mate - gonna have to get myself down there soon...!

Go for it fella scale of the place is gigantic!