North East Energy Recovery Centre Construction Site and Tower Crane, Haverton Hill, Teesside, November 2012
Visited with AJ and goan
Pretty much the whole of the Teesside UE lot (all 5 or so of us
) have had our individual (and more recently collective) eyes on this site for a long time now. During a quick stop off at Newport Bridge to watch the fireworks over sunny Stockton, the conversation again turned to this place, so we headed over for a look not expecting anything to have changed.
Anytime any one of us have checked it out over the past year, there has always been workers kicking around, making accessing the site and getting to the crane very difficult, however, on this occasion it was totally deserted (except office bound security)
The site is in the depths of Industrial Teesside. You have no reason to be within a few miles of the site other than being up to no good, security and police actively patrol the surrounding roads throughout the night, and oh, to add to your woes if caught, you have to walk down and cross train lines to access the site. Excellent.
I didn't manage to get an external shot but here's how the site will look once completed
At this point we took a break to warm up and listen to some radio in the drivers cab (Cheers for that
) where we noticed that a security van had clocked our cars and was parked up beside them... noticing him drive off we made a hasty descent down the crane for a last mooch around a bit more of the site. By this time there was sounds of activity on site and a couple of cars driving around, so we decided it was time to bail and made for our exit, only to be met by the law on the outside.
The usual "photography" lines were fed, details were taken and we were on our way, relieved that they never asked to check the camera
Cheers for looking
e2a: I assume this is best NP, shout up if not.
Visited with AJ and goan
Pretty much the whole of the Teesside UE lot (all 5 or so of us
) have had our individual (and more recently collective) eyes on this site for a long time now. During a quick stop off at Newport Bridge to watch the fireworks over sunny Stockton, the conversation again turned to this place, so we headed over for a look not expecting anything to have changed.Anytime any one of us have checked it out over the past year, there has always been workers kicking around, making accessing the site and getting to the crane very difficult, however, on this occasion it was totally deserted (except office bound security)
The site is in the depths of Industrial Teesside. You have no reason to be within a few miles of the site other than being up to no good, security and police actively patrol the surrounding roads throughout the night, and oh, to add to your woes if caught, you have to walk down and cross train lines to access the site. Excellent.
I didn't manage to get an external shot but here's how the site will look once completed
At this point we took a break to warm up and listen to some radio in the drivers cab (Cheers for that
) where we noticed that a security van had clocked our cars and was parked up beside them... noticing him drive off we made a hasty descent down the crane for a last mooch around a bit more of the site. By this time there was sounds of activity on site and a couple of cars driving around, so we decided it was time to bail and made for our exit, only to be met by the law on the outside. The usual "photography" lines were fed, details were taken and we were on our way, relieved that they never asked to check the camera
Cheers for looking
e2a: I assume this is best NP, shout up if not.
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