Lostock Power Station - Northwich - Nov 15

[Funlester]

This was the first visit of 3 yesterday, we may have got here a little early as it was pitch black and had to wait around for an hour or so for the sun to come up.

History -

Bowman Thompson & Company originally owned the site but was sold in 1900 to Brunner Mond whom with a seven year closure reconstructed the site producing sixty tonnes of soda ash a day. This figure rose to 800 tonnes a day in 1926 with all of the Brunner Mond assets being turned over to ICI.

Lostock a coal fired powerstation was decommissioned in 2000 when E.ON built there new Combined Heat & Power plant at Winnington, Lostock is due to be flattened for a new Sustainable Energy Plant to be built on the site.

 

[Lenston]

Very nice mate

 

[Maniac]

Nice set of photos, thanks for sharing them

I should make a return trip here, our original visit was cut short when we were spotted on site after only being in the building for a matter of minutes.

 

[hamtagger]

Some nice pipe-age and dial porn here, cheers for posting

 

[DirtyJigsaw]

Like this, full of win! Nice set of pics there

 

[jones-y-gog]

Looks like you were rewarded for the early start - plenty of epic stuff plus nice details

Great report

 

[Urbexbandoned]

That early start paid off, some nice pics. Thanks for sharing