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Sand Dancin Donkey Walker
20-03-2012, 14:44
Out last night and took a few photo's of the local Steel Plant SSI and the various industries on the Tees River.

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/HyCoignitor/Audio%20Art%20of%20Sound/AoSSSi-Tees01.jpg

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/HyCoignitor/Audio%20Art%20of%20Sound/AoSSSi-Tees02.jpg

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/HyCoignitor/Audio%20Art%20of%20Sound/AoSSSi-Tees03.jpg

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/HyCoignitor/Audio%20Art%20of%20Sound/AoSSSi-Tees04.jpg

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/HyCoignitor/Audio%20Art%20of%20Sound/AoSSSi-Tees05.jpg

Andy - SDDW

audio39
03-05-2012, 12:26
Awesome pics.

I was born in a steel town...those pics brought back some awesome memories.

Marco
03-05-2012, 13:02
Nice pics, Andy. Did you meet any bogey men out there on those dark, lonely and desolate beaches....? ;)

Marco.

RichB
03-05-2012, 13:04
In my last job I used to visit many of the businesses down there on teesside, when driving around at night it always reminded me of the opening scene of the city in Bladerunner, the bleak industrial landscape which Ridley Scott said was inspired by his early years in the North East.

Rare Bird
03-05-2012, 13:24
Nice pics
You have to go inside one of those places to realise how massive they are. I worked at Corus, Rotherham for ten years before moving to the job i'm in now.


Nice pics, Andy. Did you meet any bogey men out there on those dark, lonely and desolate beaches....? ;)



:lolsign: But we had Rats the size of cats outside our snap cabin tho, they half inched my sandwiches on more than one occasion while i was out on a job during the night :lol:

Sand Dancin Donkey Walker
03-05-2012, 13:44
HI Guys

Cheers for your replies,
Marco - I am that Bogey Man. What would you think.
I wonder about at night Flashing at things.
The fact I have a 'see through plastic rain coat and integral lighting' :eek: is only a very strange coincidence.

I have only just realised, I have worked at all of the places shown in the photo's in very recent times.

I am currently working for SSI at the Redcar Site. We cover the whole site from an Electrical aspect, from the Blast Furnace, Coke (choke) Ovens, Sinter Plant and all the Warfe area's. Those Unloaders are no fun, you have to walk to the top of the bloody things to do anything on them.
I think the 3rd photo shows the Hartlepool Nuclear power station.
Worker there too, for over 2 years. Good but very strange place.

Rich, I totally agree with you regarding the Ridley Scott reference.

Andy - SDDW

Sand Dancin Donkey Walker
03-05-2012, 14:02
Take A guess

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/HyCoignitor/Audio%20Art%20of%20Sound/Untitled.jpg

Andy - SDDW

RichB
03-05-2012, 14:54
Long forgotten leviathan rising from the waters hungry for the souls of lost mariners or a salmon leaping?

I occasionally cycle home from work alongside the river tyne and in the high summer months have seen some fairly impressive sized fish jumping.

Marco
03-05-2012, 15:01
Take A guess

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/HyCoignitor/Audio%20Art%20of%20Sound/Untitled.jpg


Nessie's got lost!!! :eek:

Marco.

Spectral Morn
03-05-2012, 17:43
Dolphin perhaps ?

The Grand Wazoo
03-05-2012, 18:27
Illegal immigrants using a hollowed out penguin for a snorkel.

Rare Bird
03-05-2012, 21:56
AOS secret underwater headquarters, now not so secret :)

Sand Dancin Donkey Walker
04-05-2012, 09:49
Hi Guys

Will put you out of your misery.
Though there have been some very imaginative replies.
It is actually a man on the Tees estuary at low tide digging for Lug Worm.
His is wearing a Head Lite Torch. He was a good distance away from me and I just could not get a shot of him ( note 'shot of him' not 'at him' ) while he was not moving.

Andy - SDDW

northwest
04-05-2012, 10:04
Wors wots from there r Smoggys! Coming down the A19 heading south and on a clear day you could really see the layer of smog settled into the Tees Valley. Much has happened to clean the air and the most effective policy seems to have been the successive governments mis-handling of the area and people driving industry elsewhere. When I was a boy the whole night sky was lit up with the industry and blast furnace activity. I used to watch the armies of men, gas mask cases slung over their shoulders containing their bait as they cycled to and from work ICI built a massive cycle network - way before it became "trendy" which puts modern cycle lanes to shame.
As a young lad I used to go around debt collecting and I could keep us all captive for a good few hours with some of the stories I could tell. I was never once punched or attacked which I guess proves that, at one time at least, I did have some tact! :-)

audio39
04-05-2012, 14:16
Take A guess

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/HyCoignitor/Audio%20Art%20of%20Sound/Untitled.jpg

Andy - SDDW

How did you get that photo of me swimming on my back!!! :eyebrows:

audio39
04-05-2012, 14:33
But we had Rats the size of cats outside our snap cabin tho, they half inched my sandwiches on more than one occasion while i was out on a job during the night :lol:

Back in 1979 I had just started my apprenticeship at Algoma Steel, it was late in the day on the my first "rolling mill" downday when I saw something moving behind a large metal garbage can.

I assumed (wrongly) that it was either a very large cat or raccoon, upon closer inspection I came face-to-face with a very large and quite agitated RAT!!! :wow:

I'm near to certain that the song "Ben" began to play, but in any event, I ran like a school girl.

3 washings and my shorts were clean again!!!! :lol:

Sand Dancin Donkey Walker
04-05-2012, 15:25
During early 1980, the British Steel strike was still on.
As an apprentice we still had to go onto the Lackenby site.
As we were often bored, we would take a walk about the Lackenby works.
The thing that terrified me most were the Herds, Flocks, Covens of cats that were marauding about the place.
When a group of cats look at you in a 'You look good to eat' sort of way. You don't hang about too long.

Andy - SDDW