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Might be worth getting down to Port Talbot rather sharpish, before the steelworks get cut up for scrap.
Oil refineries are good for industrial type photos.
Driving along the M56 I was struck by the industrial-looking skyline, looking north. Motor works, and a big oil refinery plus storage.
Oil refineries are good for industrial type photos.
Driving along the M56 I was struck by the industrial-looking skyline, looking north. Motor works, and a big oil refinery plus storage.
Barking Mat
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Google historic photos of industrialization in Britain.
For example.
For example.
Jelly_Sheffield
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Middlesbrough might be a good shout:
- there's a massive Solvent Recycling Plant in walking distance of the football stadium,
- the view across the river to the NW is of CF Fertilisers, Mitsubishi Cassel Works,
- Look northeast and it's the Seal Sands Chemical Complex,
- those two frame a view of Port Clarence (the UK's biggest Hazardous Waste Landfill Site),
- on the south side of the city you can see the Wilton International Chemical Complex,
- looking east you will soon have a massive shore base for Wind and Decommissioning at Teesport, replacing the largely absent view of the former SSI Redcar.
I would say my native Sheffield still has significant industrial stuff visible even right into the city centre, without it being quite as drastic, though it's all slowly being driven out eastward.
- there's a massive Solvent Recycling Plant in walking distance of the football stadium,
- the view across the river to the NW is of CF Fertilisers, Mitsubishi Cassel Works,
- Look northeast and it's the Seal Sands Chemical Complex,
- those two frame a view of Port Clarence (the UK's biggest Hazardous Waste Landfill Site),
- on the south side of the city you can see the Wilton International Chemical Complex,
- looking east you will soon have a massive shore base for Wind and Decommissioning at Teesport, replacing the largely absent view of the former SSI Redcar.
I would say my native Sheffield still has significant industrial stuff visible even right into the city centre, without it being quite as drastic, though it's all slowly being driven out eastward.
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London should be pretty much the top of the tree, really, given the size of its population and the astonishing diversity of its imagination.
Likely biding its time in quiet contemplation, wondering how not to be drawn into hasty or precipitate folly...
' Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted....'
Likely biding its time in quiet contemplation, wondering how not to be drawn into hasty or precipitate folly...
' Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted....'
well if you want an old look at Halifax from the early 1970's this is a film of the local area. and Halifax used to be known as "The town of many trades" because of the number of industries that were there.
THIS TOWN OF OURS
This film was made by Halifax Cine Club to commemorate the town by providing an overview of its history, industry, landmarks, local services and sporting and...
www.yfanefa.com
and this is a photo from roughly the same time
and from the late 1930's
and another of the same area at the same time
I can see YRCMCRC from here . . .well if you want an old look at Halifax from the early 1970's this is a film of the local area. and Halifax used to be known as "The town of many trades" because of the number of industries that were there.
THIS TOWN OF OURS
This film was made by Halifax Cine Club to commemorate the town by providing an overview of its history, industry, landmarks, local services and sporting and...www.yfanefa.com
and this is a photo from roughly the same time
and from the late 1930's
and another of the same area at the same time
I remember the gasometer and the wire works.
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Love to have a good look around there!
Trafford Park, anything not made in Sheffield or Derby was made there. As the crap wiki page states "pre-eminent industrial metropolis". Metrovicks alone employed over 25,000 by wars end. For several years I stored some metrology gear that I bought from Fermec (ex MF Industrial) in the test bays used for running Merlin engines on the south side of Barton Dock Road, the brickwork and some metal support chassis were all that remained of the bays enclosed within the main works. 30,000 Merlin engines left the gates of the site on the south side of BDR. Ford built shadow factories on Barton Dock Road, both were used for the war effort in aero parts production. Metro built Lancs a few hundred yards away and lost over a dozen in one of the luftwaffe raids. Metro's was surely one of the most important industrial sites on the planet at its zenith.
I expect everyone who grew up in a former manufacturing stronghold believes their place to have been the true UK goliath of manufacturing industry, perhaps members who lived or grew up on Clydeside or Merseyside would have their say for heavy metal fabrication and engine building.
Image of Avro Lancs construction at Metrovics.
I expect everyone who grew up in a former manufacturing stronghold believes their place to have been the true UK goliath of manufacturing industry, perhaps members who lived or grew up on Clydeside or Merseyside would have their say for heavy metal fabrication and engine building.
Image of Avro Lancs construction at Metrovics.
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What type of industry?
All the replies so far concentrate on big, heavy, manufacturing industries and a significant number of those are rooted in past industry, not what you would see in any particular town today.
Drive up the M1, near where it joins the M6, and you see vast warehouses. They are a form of industry.
Whatley Quarry and Torr Quarry are industry.
Go to Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. That is a form of industry.
That call centre in Mumbai that you speak to for everything these days is in the service industry.
The square mile in London is the financial industry.
More in passing, have a look at the Ken Hawley Trust YT channel. Lots of fascinating stuff there relating to past activity in Sheffield.
Beeezer
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I should of pointed out what type..
Big heavy manufacturing industries is what I meant.
Not really interested in the other you mention.
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Ive spent time in Ulsan South Korea, working at the Hyundai Ship Yards….big and heavy industry all around.
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You'd better hurry up......this is me organising scrapping some of the obsolete, 60 years old iron ladles back in early 2022 to make some space for new ones to be delivered..............little did we know at the time, just over 2 years later they will be scrapping all of them and the steel plant they lived in, and the new ladles they spent £5m on
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SE Asia is on another level.
When I visited a bunch of Chinese customers in Hebei, Shandong, and Tianjin provinces the scale of industrialisation was almost unimaginably vast, even a random 5th tier city had multiple oil refineries, petrochemical plants, a steel works, a ship yard, and all the associated supply chain of engineering services...
Then popped in to see customers in Tuas and Jurong Island in Singapore, and whilst not quite so huge, it was incredibly densely packed with businesses doing pretty much anything you can think of.
Meanwhile I’m paying over £200 a year for my planet killing 1.6ltr petrol car.
Jelly_Sheffield
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Honestly I don't think £200 a year for the use of the roads is anything to feel hard done by about... When the French pay up to €0.60 per km for motorway travel, and the Chinese pay £0.05 per km.
The Road Fund Licence is a very good deal compared to per mile user charging, even if you have a gas guzzler.
The Chinese public have also adopted electric cars (but not lorries) at a staggering rate, with (generally) better infrastructure.
Of course as a nation they will still make petrol, chemicals, plastic tat, and so on as long as we in the west are willing to buy it, and they will happily make it in as sustainable or unsustainable a way as the customer is willing to pay for.
