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Explore #233: Kelenföld Power Station, Budapest, Hungary – September 2018

December 23, 2019

Hungary, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #2 of the ‘Lightweights & Heavyweights’ Tour Firstly, my apologies for the delay since my last post. I’ve recently started a new job, and it’s been a tiring (but good) end to 2019. I’m hoping to catch up on a few more posts from the backlog during the forthcoming Xmas break… Alarm clocks were set to Ouch O’Clock for a painfully early start to day two of our Eastern European long weekend, but our anticipation couldn’t have been higher.…

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Explore #215: ‘Lady in Red’ Control Room, France – August 2017

July 22, 2018

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France, Industrial & Commercial Sites

Explore #7 of the ‘Greased Otters Tour’ Please excuse the cringeworthy Urbex codename, not of my doing… History This control room is all that now remains of a former gas and oil-fired power plant, built in the early 2000s to power a paper mill next door. The mill once boasted a production output of 330,00 tonnes of paper per annum, employing almost 350 staff. Production declined during the 2010s, and after failing to sell the site it was closed down…

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Explore #212: HFX Blast Furnaces and Steel works, Hayange / Florange, France – August 2017

July 16, 2018

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France, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #4 of the ‘Greased Otters Tour’ Day Two was the centrepiece explore of our long weekend – the other sites we had lined up were all great in their own ways, but this one was an absolute beast – a huge decomissioned steel works which once boasted no fewer than six blast furnaces… History (translated and rewritten from here and here) The presence of iron ore in the region was exploited back to Roman times, if not earlier. The…