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I don't normally do offices as a rule much they are often boring and repetitive.but this place had popped up on my feed by a few friends of mine so me and man gone wrong and janovitch decided to head that way with a few more pins in our head but we spent so long here we only did one more place.i really enjoyed this place with a nice variety of stuff to see and the decay was perfect especially in the cold harsh office space,there is a main office admin block with what looks like a modern extension to it,this had a telephone exchange in it too.the site was acquired by burmah Castrol oil in 1966 and the office block certainly looks the newest addition to the site,i would say late sixties or very early seventies.there is also a canteen and labs and some sort of generator room.it had a real surreal feel to it just sitting there in the middle of one of the biggest oil refineries in the country and here you are in this over grown almost apocalyptic building away from everything in a certain way.we did meet two more northern explorers in there who I know so we had a little chat,then another explorer and his son
I stumbled upon in this very dark room,what was a dark room for photo developing with the bottles of chenicals still there and Kodak photo paper.
Here is the canteen area which was of a large size I presume maybe the oil workers came here and not just the office staff,maybe there was more buildings on the technical site once.i had lots of the little round skylights with with little glass domes on,they seem to be popular with the era.
Here we have the main block I think for powering the buildings.
And last up is the labs this was a nice surprise for the last bit of the explore.the building here is much older almost got that raf feel to it with its almost art deco style,it has some lovely old wooden lab benches.real proper solid ones.i guess they tested the oils and that here,the offices out the back were nice too with a riot of colour.
I stumbled upon in this very dark room,what was a dark room for photo developing with the bottles of chenicals still there and Kodak photo paper.
Here is the canteen area which was of a large size I presume maybe the oil workers came here and not just the office staff,maybe there was more buildings on the technical site once.i had lots of the little round skylights with with little glass domes on,they seem to be popular with the era.
Here we have the main block I think for powering the buildings.
And last up is the labs this was a nice surprise for the last bit of the explore.the building here is much older almost got that raf feel to it with its almost art deco style,it has some lovely old wooden lab benches.real proper solid ones.i guess they tested the oils and that here,the offices out the back were nice too with a riot of colour.