Really glad you got to see this before it all went to shit, great episode!

@chrisluckhardt

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys. It was so disconcerting to learn yet another control room be vandalized.

Worked at Southwark as a Test Engineer in 1969. Glad you videoed the Chemistry Lab, which brings back memories. I took it upon myself to learn the plant chemistry. Frame 17:28 Hydrazine tank is visible on right side of frame. Must have been dilute Hydrazine or maybe not MMH that is used as rocket fuel. Sulfite and Hydrazine were added to feedwater to scavenge dissolved oxygen that rusted feedwater pipes. I added phosphate to keep boiler drum water above 12 PH. Frame 17:37 - What is left of the Klett- an optical instrument that measured silica concentration in boiler drum water. I ordered boiler drum blowdowns when silica concentration got too high because silica corrodes turbine blades. Frame 23:28 Number 6 fuel oil tank. Plant converted from coal to oil in late 1960's. Frame 24:16 - Chlorinator building. River water for steam condenser was treated with chlorine to kill algae that clogged cooling water tubes. Note train tracks that allowed chlorine tank car to service chlorinators. Frame 25:21 Coal conveyor belt terminal building.

@chrisluckhardt

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the detailed breakdown of equipment and facilities! Greatly appreciated!

@werlecar

4 ай бұрын

Hi! I loved reading your descriptions! Do you miss working there?

What a big place that newspaper was the year I was born

@chrisluckhardt

2 жыл бұрын

1986 must've been a good year!

I gotta visit this place, the turbine hall looks amazing

loving all your videos! Top!! 👏🏼❤️

@chrisluckhardt

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I absolutely love that industrial blue/green on the turbines.

@chrisluckhardt

2 жыл бұрын

The classic colours of mid-century industrial America!

@bleachedin2mysoul

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisluckhardt absolutely stunning!!!!!

@CB-ke7eq

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisluckhardt Yes! But you know, that seemed to be everywhere though, not just in industrial uses. My grandparents house was built in 1958 and had walls painted that color up until we repainted the place in the 90s.

@chrisluckhardt

2 жыл бұрын

@@CB-ke7eq For sure! I’ve seen it in other abandoned places of that era like psychiatric facilities. And we also had it on our home’s window ledges which I was told were painted in the early 60s. That green colour was inescapable!

@CB-ke7eq

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisluckhardt I'm almost reminded of the 90s and all of the teal and purple everywhere ya looked 😄

Now I feel like painting a painting of peeled paint :O

@chrisluckhardt

2 жыл бұрын

I look forward to seeing another one of your beautiful masterpieces!

Once you view a dead person for the last time, it's time to bury the body. Same goes for a power plant. At least you gave it a fitting obituary for posterity.

Amazing place 👍🏻

@chrisluckhardt

2 жыл бұрын

Power plants are phenomenal to explore after they've been unused for so long!

Good morning thanks you ❤️

Must have been noisy with everything running. Would the turbines be running all at once?

@chrisluckhardt

4 ай бұрын

It was closed in 1996, so the only noisy was from the breeze rattling decaying infrastructure and a couple of scrappers cutting the turbines apart.

@seannobel

3 ай бұрын

​@@chrisluckhardtI think they meant, "when it was running," as in when it was in operation.

@chrisluckhardt

3 ай бұрын

@@seannobel That does make more sense lol. It seems obvious that it would be loud in their during operational days, so my mind immediately went into its abandoned era. Protip: don’t respond while falling asleep 😅💀