{"id":1298,"date":"2013-11-17T23:08:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T23:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=1298"},"modified":"2013-11-18T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:12:14","slug":"industrial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/home\/industrial\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial"},"content":{"rendered":"Old Printworks <\/h3><\/a><\/li>\n
Dunaskin Brickworks <\/h3>The Dalmellington Iron Company was formed in 1848 in Dunaskin, Ayrshire –…<\/a><\/li>\n
Clydebridge Steelworks <\/h3>I guess I can tell this story now. Clydebridge steelworks to the…<\/a><\/li>\n
BASF Paisley <\/h3>BASF’s plant in Paisley is about 60 years old, and was producing…<\/a><\/li>\n
Rolls Royce <\/h3>Rolls-Royce is a big company who make jet engines. See, you don’t…<\/a><\/li>\n
Johnnie Walker Bottling Plant <\/h3>When Diageo closed down the Johnnie Walker distillery in Glasgow, I was\u00a0in…<\/a><\/li>\n
Steel Plate & Sections <\/h3>SPS was (is?) a large steel stockholders owned by Corus – their…<\/a><\/li>\n
Hyundai Freescale Part II <\/h3>I’ve visited this gigantic white elephant before – originally built by Hyundai…<\/a><\/li>\n
McEwan’s Fountain Brewery <\/h3>The brewery that refuses to die! Reports of this brewery’s demise have…<\/a><\/li>\n
Port Dundas Distillery Part III <\/h3>I last visited Diageo’s historic Port Dundas distillery back in July, a…<\/a><\/li>\n
Clydebridge & Dalzell Steelworks <\/h3>This was a by-invitation visit to take pictures for training and PR…<\/a><\/li>\n
Proper Scottish Engineering <\/h3>Exploring disused manufacturing can sometimes be a bit depressing – all that…<\/a><\/li>\n
Port Dundas Distillery Part II <\/h3>Back again for another look, and to cover the bits I missed.…<\/a><\/li>\n
Port Dundas Distillery <\/h3>It’s funny, isn’t it – when Diageo announced that they would be…<\/a><\/li>\n
ICI Nobel Explosives VIII <\/h3>It’s been, ooh, 15 minutes since I last did a report on…<\/a><\/li>\n
James Kilpatrick & Son Ltd. <\/h3>It’s hard to know what to call this site, as it’s had…<\/a><\/li>\n
Temple Gasometers <\/h3>Temple Gasworks was built in 1871 for the Partick, Hillhead and Maryhill…<\/a><\/li>\n
ICI Nobel Explosives VII <\/h3>I just can’t keep away from this place – this was another…<\/a><\/li>\n
William Paton Ltd. Part II <\/h3>I haven’t been back to Paton’s Mill since October 2008, and the…<\/a><\/li>\n
Hyundai Freescale Semiconductor <\/h3>Semiconductors were meant to be the saviour of Scottish industry – we…<\/a><\/li>\n
ICI Nobel Explosives Part VI <\/h3>A fun stroll in the woods, with some friends – big concrete…<\/a><\/li>\n
Meadowside Shipyard Offices <\/h3>Tod and McGregor claimed to be the “fathers of iron shipbuilding on…<\/a><\/li>\n
Jawcraig Brickworks <\/h3>This is a wee brickworks in the middle of nowhere near Falkirk.…<\/a><\/li>\n
ICI Nobel Explosives Part V <\/h3>I know what you’re thinking – you’re thinking when the hell am…<\/a><\/li>\n
ICI Nobel Explosives Part IV <\/h3>Another visit back to the enormous Ardeer site, this time to have…<\/a><\/li>\n
Coed Talon Brickworks <\/h3>I don’t know much about this – didn’t even know it was…<\/a><\/li>\n
Brymbo Steelworks <\/h3>There has been a steelworks in Brymbo, near Wrexham, for over 200…<\/a><\/li>\n
ICI Nobel Explosives Part III <\/h3>A third visit, this time from a different direction. This is Africa…<\/a><\/li>\n
Fountainbridge Brewery <\/h3>Hearing that this place was still (mostly) standing, I went over to…<\/a><\/li>\n
ICI Nobel Explosives Part II <\/h3>A second visit to see more of this huge site. First to…<\/a><\/li>\n
ICI Nobel Explosives <\/h3>The Ardeer peninsula in Ayrshire is basically a gigantic sand dune –…<\/a><\/li>\n
Heather Mills <\/h3>Did you know that Paul McCartney bought Heather Mills a plane for…<\/a><\/li>\n
IBM Greenock <\/h3>IBM built it’s first factory in Spango Valley, Greenock, in 1951; initially…<\/a><\/li>\n
William Paton Ltd. <\/h3>William Paton Limited was founded at Johnstone in Scotland in 1840 by…<\/a><\/li>\n
Nestle Purina <\/h3>The problem with GPS is that you need to put the right…<\/a><\/li>\n
EDS Print Facility <\/h3>In Livingston with nothing to do on a Sunday, this looked worth…<\/a><\/li>\n
A Cologne Factory <\/h3>While in Cologne for a bike show, I happened across a lovely…<\/a><\/li>\n
BVT Surface Fleet <\/h3>BVT is a merger between BAE Systems and VT Shipbuilding, formed in…<\/a><\/li>\n
Howden Engineering Works <\/h3>Howden’s Engineering Works in Scotland Street, Glasgow, are next to the Mackintosh-designed…<\/a><\/li>\n
Ballantine’s Distillery <\/h3>Ballantine’s distillery dominated the town of Dumbarton for over 60 years before…<\/a><\/li>\n
Rockvilla Mushroom Factory and School <\/h3>Right next to the Spier’s Wharf branch of the Forth & Clyde…<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1323,"parent":977,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1298","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3yGoo-kW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}