Redcar Steelworks Power Station, Teesside

One from October 2021 recently released for public consumption.

History

The power station was fuelled by a combination of gasses from the blast furnace and coke ovens - both by-products of the steelmaking process, supplied directly by pipeline. The resulting electricity was used to power the steelworks. 

The building is a combined power station and compressor house with three sets of two turbines and compressors, each of differing designs. The compressors provided high-pressure air for the steelmaking process, injected in to the blast furnace. The oldest two of turbine sets appears to have been out of commission for some time.

Source:

https://www.bcd-urbex.com/redcar-power-station/

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Redcar & Southbank Steelworks Coke Ovens, Teesside

One from June 2021 recently released for public consumption.

History

The Teesside Steelworks is a large steelworks that formed a continuous stretch along the south bank of the River Tees from the towns of Middlesbrough to Redcar in North Yorkshire, England. At its height there were 91 blast furnaces within a 10-mile radius of the area. By April 1993 there was only one left on Teesside. Opened in 1979 and located near the mouth of the River Tees, the Redcar blast furnace was the second largest in Europe.

The majority of the steelworks, including the Redcar blast furnace, Redcar and South Bank coke ovens and the BOS plant at Lackenby closed in 2015. The Teesside Beam Mill and some support services still operate at the Lackenby part of the site.

On 1 October 2022, the Basic Oxygen Steelmaking Plant in Redcar was demolished in one of the largest single explosive demolition operations in the country in 75 years.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesside_Steelworks

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Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Warrington

One from May 2020 recently released for public consumption.

History

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a decommissioned coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Opened in 1971, the station had a generating capacity of 1,989 megawatts and took water from the River Mersey. After privatisation in 1990, the station was operated by various companies, and from 2004 to 2022 by SSE Thermal. The power station closed on 31 March 2020. The site was acquired by Peel NRE in July 2022.

With its eight 114-metre (374 ft) high cooling towers and 200-metre (660 ft) high chimney, the station is a prominent local landmark and can be seen from as far away as the Peak District and the Pennines.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlers_Ferry_power_station

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Eggborough Power Station, North Yorkshire

Several visits from December 2018 & January 2020 recently released for public consumption.

History

Eggborough power station was a coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, which was capable of co-firing biomass. It was situated on the River Aire, between the towns of Knottingley and Snaith, deriving its name from the nearby village of Eggborough. The station had a generating capacity of 1,960 megawatts, enough electricity to power 2 million homes, equivalent to the area of Leeds and Sheffield.

The station began generating power in 1967, making use of nearby coal reserves. It was built for, and initially operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board. The station closed in September 2018 and demolition works began in 2020, with the eight cooling towers being the first to come down in 2021. The Bunker Bay was demolished on 6 March 2022, the DA Bay on 1 June 2022 and the chimney and boiler house on 24 July 2022. There were initially plans to replace it with a 2,500 megawatt gas power plant, however, due to soaring gas prices this did not go ahead.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggborough_power_station

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Bacteriological Institute of Camara Pestana, Lisbon

History

The Instituto Bacteriológico de Câmara Pestana results from the development of the Instituto Bacteriológico de Lisboa , an institution dedicated to medical microbiology created in Lisbon on the 29th of December 1892 as a specialized service of Hospital de São José , with the main purpose of carrying out bacteriological analyzes and preventive treatment of human rabies using the Pasteur method. The Bacteriological Institute was due to the initiative of the physician and pioneer of bacteriology Luís da Câmara Pestana , who was its first director, with Aníbal de Bettencourt as his assistant physician .

Installed in a dependency of the Hospital de São José, on March 9, 1895 it was autonomous, taking the designation of Royal Bacteriological Institute of Lisbon . The main objectives were then defined as rabies vaccination, the preparation of anti- toxic sera for the treatment of diphtheria, tetanus and other infectious diseases, monitoring the progress of microbiological science and reducing the economic burden of importing vaccine and sera.

In 1899 the Royal Bacteriological Institute of Lisbon was transferred to its own building, the building it currently occupies, taking the name of the Royal Bacteriological Institute of Câmara Pestana, in honour of its founder, who died that same year. The importance of the Institute is attested by the toponym Rua do Instituto Bacteriológico attributed to the street where it has its headquarters.With the establishment of the Portuguese Republic and the creation of the University of Lisbon, in 1911 the Instituto Bacteriológico de Câmara Pestana was annexed to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, a situation it maintained until 1989.

After a decade of uncertainty, from 2008 onwards most of the Instituto Bacteriológico building was handed over to Universidade Nova de Lisboa , which installed a biomedical research center there, and the main activities of the IBCP were transferred to the Hospital de Santa Mary. With this change, the Instituto Bacteriológico Câmara Pestana (IBCP) ends a period in which it operated practically without activity. The new IBCP will be built on the Santa Maria campus and will redefine the mission of Câmara Pestana, which will be focused on microbiology issues, but with very strong links to the Institute of Molecular Biology of the University of Lisbon.

Source:

https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_Bacteriol%C3%B3gico_de_C%C3%A2mara_Pestana

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