Out last night and took a few photo's of the local Steel Plant SSI and the various industries on the Tees River.
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Out Last Night, Photo's of SSI / Tees Industry
Out last night and took a few photo's of the local Steel Plant SSI and the various industries on the Tees River.
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Awesome pics.
I was born in a steel town...those pics brought back some awesome memories.
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Nice pics, Andy. Did you meet any bogey men out there on those dark, lonely and desolate beaches....?
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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.
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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.
Originally Posted by Marco
Nice pics, Andy. Did you meet any bogey men out there on those dark, lonely and desolate beaches....?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
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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'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.
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Take A guess
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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.
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Nessie's got lost!!!Take A guess
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Dolphin perhaps ?
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