Exploring An Abandoned Power Station UK

First explore for the year with an old Abandoned power station in the heart of Manchester.

We decided to go more future out in the area and come across a lot of stuff.

We will be no doubt about it doing another explore here as theirs much in the area that is lost history in the making to be unrevealed.

The History

Preparations for a power station at Heyrod began in 1916 when 26 acres (110,000 m2) of land were purchased. The station was opened in 1926 by the Transport and Electricity Board.[1] The station began operation with three Metropolitan-Vickers 12,500 kW turbo-alternators generating at the local SHMD supply frequency of 40 Hz. Later that year the station's output was changed to the nationally agreed standard of 50 Hz. In 1935, a major expansion of Hartshead began with the first of three new Metropolitan-Vickers 30,000 kW generating sets being commissioned, followed by the second set in 1943 and the third set in 1950. The station's concrete cooling towers were constructed in the 1940s.[2] Coal was delivered to the plant at Millbrook railway sidings on the Micklehurst Line, situated on the opposite side of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. The sidings were built in 1932 and had space to hold up to 130 12-ton wagons. Coal was fed into a hopper underneath the sidings before being transported on an enclosed conveyor belt which emerged high above the valley to cross the River Tame and canal before entering the station at a high level.[3] The station was closed on 29 October 1979 with a generating capacity of 64 megawatts.[4] It was demolished during the late 1980s, although part of the site is still used as an electrical substation.

The Explore

This was our first explore to bring the new year in we founds lots of different sections and we ended up finding and underground system that was flooded yet we plan to do a 2nd explore of the place to go down it and see where it leads and what remains if anything is left in the underground tunnels.

We soon ventured off into the woods and the surrounding areas and come across 2 more buildings that is also featured in the explore on Youtube where we could not get in but eventual moved on down into the woods where we found even more underground tunnels we went exploring in and then come to a canal where their was more bits. We had spent the part of 3 to 4 hours exploring the area. There is so so much more to explore here no doubt about it after searching on maps and finding a lot of interesting places and pinned for a 2nd part.

Full Explore