Hi everyone.
Thanks for making me feel welcome,here is my first report on derelict places, hope you enjoy!
History.
Has been done a few times before so I'll do a condensed version.
The site first was first active from 1960 to 1974 using poor quality coal to make gas at cheaper rate than was possible at the time. This came to and end when Scottish houses were converted to use North Sea gas in 1973.
There have been a few different owners over the years, including some experimenting Americans, though I'm not 100% sure on what these experiments were.
In 1992 a gas turbine was built, though the majority of coal mines in Scotland had been shut at this time so it was a bit of a fruitless endeavour.
Purchased by SSE in 2004, then in 2006 the gasification process was used to look at ways of reducing waste and increasing energy outputs.
The site eventually closed in 2011.
I was really looking forward to this one, the reports I had seen made it look incredible, plenty to see and very little change.
We were met with disappointment straight off the bat, the main gates were open, there were sounds of crunching metal and a crane towards the back of the site.
The majority of the site had been flattened, all the nice pipe work had gone. All that was left was the guard hut, a burnt out office block and the labs which were a total goldmine, especially to the wee guy in there pinching scrap metal and anything else he could find.
The lab was great to look around, lots of interesting sounding chemicals and plenty of nice equipment. According to the wee guy that "wisny really intae the copper" his pal had told him some of the equipment was going for over £4,000 on ebay but he "wisny really intae the internet" either.
This was in a cupboard marked "Poisons" above some actual cyanide, I couldn't believe, it was kind of worrying that antidote B was nowhere to be seen.
Here is a link to an album containing all my pics from the day
https://photos.app.goo.gl/axFY9ZEsE1kaDiL67
Thanks for looking!
Thanks for making me feel welcome,here is my first report on derelict places, hope you enjoy!
History.
Has been done a few times before so I'll do a condensed version.
The site first was first active from 1960 to 1974 using poor quality coal to make gas at cheaper rate than was possible at the time. This came to and end when Scottish houses were converted to use North Sea gas in 1973.
There have been a few different owners over the years, including some experimenting Americans, though I'm not 100% sure on what these experiments were.
In 1992 a gas turbine was built, though the majority of coal mines in Scotland had been shut at this time so it was a bit of a fruitless endeavour.
Purchased by SSE in 2004, then in 2006 the gasification process was used to look at ways of reducing waste and increasing energy outputs.
The site eventually closed in 2011.
I was really looking forward to this one, the reports I had seen made it look incredible, plenty to see and very little change.
We were met with disappointment straight off the bat, the main gates were open, there were sounds of crunching metal and a crane towards the back of the site.
The majority of the site had been flattened, all the nice pipe work had gone. All that was left was the guard hut, a burnt out office block and the labs which were a total goldmine, especially to the wee guy in there pinching scrap metal and anything else he could find.
The lab was great to look around, lots of interesting sounding chemicals and plenty of nice equipment. According to the wee guy that "wisny really intae the copper" his pal had told him some of the equipment was going for over £4,000 on ebay but he "wisny really intae the internet" either.
This was in a cupboard marked "Poisons" above some actual cyanide, I couldn't believe, it was kind of worrying that antidote B was nowhere to be seen.
Here is a link to an album containing all my pics from the day
https://photos.app.goo.gl/axFY9ZEsE1kaDiL67
Thanks for looking!
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