Re: Southam Cement Works 09/09/07
Oh, excellent.
Courtesy of The Wurzels!
Oh, excellent.
ps - your signature is brilliant
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Southam Cement Works - September 2007
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Re: Southam Cement Works 09/09/07
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
now it makes sence, you gotta say it a lil faster in a west country half pissed on cider accent
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
now it makes sence, you gotta say it a lil faster in a west country half pissed on cider accent
photos
Went back on at the weekend - beautiful morning so no excuse for sh*t photos this time. Visit curtailed by puncture on bike unfortunately.
Log book in maintenance workshop
Very very big building. About 100m from one end to the other
um - switchgear
sand hopper. looks like they just switched it off, went home and never came back
conveyer that took the sand up to the 'very big building'
serious bit of kit that drove the fans I think. Reminds me of something out of Phantom of the Opera for some reason
generator of some sort
general shot of site
place is so big you could spend a whole day there.
more pics here - including one of an orchid for all you wildlife lovers
http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa101/borntobemild/southam/
Went back on at the weekend - beautiful morning so no excuse for sh*t photos this time. Visit curtailed by puncture on bike unfortunately.
Log book in maintenance workshop
Very very big building. About 100m from one end to the other
um - switchgear
sand hopper. looks like they just switched it off, went home and never came back
conveyer that took the sand up to the 'very big building'
serious bit of kit that drove the fans I think. Reminds me of something out of Phantom of the Opera for some reason
generator of some sort
general shot of site
place is so big you could spend a whole day there.
more pics here - including one of an orchid for all you wildlife lovers
http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa101/borntobemild/southam/
cool stuff must pop back here now its dryed up a bit
Borntobemild the site is definately a haven for wildlife, I saw deer around the back of the site once.
That pic of the cat owning the machine is adorable
That pic of the cat owning the machine is adorable
Went back last weekend and took a few more pics.
Lots of changes have taken place over the summer, with a number of buildings demolished or buried in spoil.
The owners (Cemex) have a couple of Planning Applications out for the site and they seem to be 'tidying' it up.
Great shame.
more pics here
http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa101/borntobemild/southam2/
Lots of changes have taken place over the summer, with a number of buildings demolished or buried in spoil.
The owners (Cemex) have a couple of Planning Applications out for the site and they seem to be 'tidying' it up.
Great shame.
more pics here
http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa101/borntobemild/southam2/
Wow, that's amazing to see how the trees and bushes have grown and encroached so much since the last time. Great to see more photos. Cheers.
nice one!!!
i was just thinking the other day need to get back here
i was just thinking the other day need to get back here
Went past here today and noticed they have demolished some settlement tanks on the northern side of the disused railway line!!!! If you look at Borntobemilds 5th picture from the top this was the tank with the green coloured water in it.
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Went back (again) at the weekend. The place is so big, I always find a bit I haven't been in before. The two big settlement tanks on the other side of the railway have gone now. Not much further demolition, and security seems to have eased off.
It hasn't rained for a month here so everywhere was nice and dry. So dry that i could taste the dust in my mouth as i walked around.
Makes a big difference. Cement dust not good when wet.
Some of the equipment in there looks incredibly sophisticated. Obviously making cement is more complicated than just heating up a bit of limestone with a bit of sand.
new and old
no idea what this was for
large hadron collider
couple of shots from the structure right next to the chimney
that's a lot of volts
hope these don't hold spent nuclear fuel
i arrived about 8:00 on a beautiful sunny morning. About an hour later a thick fog had enveloped the whole site. Quite spooky really. Took this shot of the chimney as i was leaving.
It hasn't rained for a month here so everywhere was nice and dry. So dry that i could taste the dust in my mouth as i walked around.
Makes a big difference. Cement dust not good when wet.
Some of the equipment in there looks incredibly sophisticated. Obviously making cement is more complicated than just heating up a bit of limestone with a bit of sand.
new and old
no idea what this was for
large hadron collider
couple of shots from the structure right next to the chimney
that's a lot of volts
hope these don't hold spent nuclear fuel
i arrived about 8:00 on a beautiful sunny morning. About an hour later a thick fog had enveloped the whole site. Quite spooky really. Took this shot of the chimney as i was leaving.
oooo may have to pop back here pronto
