Thames Steel closed its doors on 19th January 2012. For three years the site has laid silent, so I thought it was high time I paid it a visit.
The site is huge, and we ended up spending 7 hours exploring it! So apologies if this is a bit pic heavy, but it’s a big site. Thanks to Mikeymutt for encouraging me to go. I had a free day for exploring pencilled in the calendar with nowhere I wanted to go, then got a message from him out the blue saying "You gotta go here!" So thanks again!
Visited with Lady Pandora, Mr Dan, & Sweatpea.
I loved this room so much. It was a lot darker than it looks here though. This was a 10” exposure:
Freddy!
Caged corridor
Bucket…
Even the supports under the mezzanine formed a beautiful pattern:
The light in the warehouses was just lush!
Big door: (an UrbanX included for scale)
Tools / parts:
Admin buildings:
The huge steelworks was shut down at 48 hours notice. I assume the workers were spun a yarn about how they’d “probably be back at work in a few weeks” as the place was left just as it was.
Ties and jackets still hanging up:
Testing kit:
Photos left behind:
Paperwork:
Not a million miles off what my office is like:
Mugs still in the dishwasher:
Canteen:
The many filthy minded signs of Thames Steel. They never got old.
Control rooms:
I lost count of how many control rooms we got into, maybe 6?
Time to go:
Thanks for reading.
The site is huge, and we ended up spending 7 hours exploring it! So apologies if this is a bit pic heavy, but it’s a big site. Thanks to Mikeymutt for encouraging me to go. I had a free day for exploring pencilled in the calendar with nowhere I wanted to go, then got a message from him out the blue saying "You gotta go here!" So thanks again!
Visited with Lady Pandora, Mr Dan, & Sweatpea.
I loved this room so much. It was a lot darker than it looks here though. This was a 10” exposure:
Freddy!
Caged corridor
Bucket…
Even the supports under the mezzanine formed a beautiful pattern:
The light in the warehouses was just lush!
Big door: (an UrbanX included for scale)
Tools / parts:
Admin buildings:
The huge steelworks was shut down at 48 hours notice. I assume the workers were spun a yarn about how they’d “probably be back at work in a few weeks” as the place was left just as it was.
Ties and jackets still hanging up:
Testing kit:
Photos left behind:
Paperwork:
Not a million miles off what my office is like:
Mugs still in the dishwasher:
Canteen:
The many filthy minded signs of Thames Steel. They never got old.
Control rooms:
I lost count of how many control rooms we got into, maybe 6?
Time to go:
Thanks for reading.