the cranes on the power station site used to unload the coal from the delivering boats onto the conveyor system that passed through the weighbridge building on the right of the cranes,before going into the coal store silos, it was then collected by a travelling grab and dropped into an endless chain of buckets in between the two silos that went to the station wall up to the top floor then tipped into the inside storage silos, I never saw it in action, I worked for Arthur Hindley from Mold to take the coal plant out as it had been converted to use oil, one funny thing was my uncle was working there and as we were contractors he would not associate with any of us, I have an old black and white photograph of the travelling crane just before we took it down I will try to scan it and post it later,
hotel magnum:
the cranes on the power station site used to unload the coal from the delivering boats onto the conveyor system that passed through the weighbridge building on the right of the cranes,before going into the coal store silos, it was then collected by a travelling grab and dropped into an endless chain of buckets in between the two silos that went to the station wall up to the top floor then tipped into the inside storage silos, I never saw it in action, I worked for Arthur Hindley from Mold to take the coal plant out as it had been converted to use oil, one funny thing was my uncle was working there and as we were contractors he would not associate with any of us, I have an old black and white photograph of the travelling crane just before we took it down I will try to scan it and post it later,
Hi hotel magnum that was very informative I do hope you are able to post the photo also. I can vaguely remember a similar set up on Poole quay to feed the old gas works there.regards Geoff
hotel magnum:
the cranes on the power station site used to unload the coal from the delivering boats onto the conveyor system that passed through the weighbridge building on the right of the cranes,before going into the coal store silos, it was then collected by a travelling grab and dropped into an endless chain of buckets in between the two silos that went to the station wall up to the top floor then tipped into the inside storage silos, I never saw it in action, I worked for Arthur Hindley from Mold to take the coal plant out as it had been converted to use oil, one funny thing was my uncle was working there and as we were contractors he would not associate with any of us, I have an old black and white photograph of the travelling crane just before we took it down I will try to scan it and post it later,
As Geoff says thanks for the info Hotel magnum, the skyline has changed since then. Looking at Geoffs photo of Ings Marathon coming down New Quay road that pretty much all belongs to Sunseeker now,who are probably the biggest private employer in Poole these days ?
Geoff i remember the cranes and silos on the quay used to load and unload ships there back in the 1970s on my school holidays,happy days !
The first pic is very old on the quay side before the silos were built,the second shows the silos.
From memory the conveybelt was something to do with the gas works i think ■■
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Ings transport from Fordingbridge did I think more traction of French and Italian trailers from the ports of Poole, Soton and Pompy than actually going abroad, they also IIRC did a lot of bulk work with grain etc. They are also farmers and still sell cattle in Frome today cheers Buzzer.
used to run with one of ings drivers way back on spain arthur briggs best in rhe west was his saying hope the ol boy is still with us 
I took this pic Geoff and as you can see its taken on the approach road to the Truckline Ferry terminal,Cheers Bubbs, 
Heres a couple of pics Geoff,T.J.Winter…an F.B.Atkins subbie goes into the Truckline Ferry terminal with a tilt and leaves with a flat,Cheers Bubbs
In the nineties there was a Spanish tractor unit in the Customs compound, it was there for many years .
I found the power station photo at last and had to wait until today as my scanner failed, so took the picture to work and e mailed it back home, the building on the right was the weighbridge house, of which we took out all the flooring grills and equipment then 4 of us cut the steels at the same time dropping the whole floor in one go then cutting up for removal on the ground floor, this was done for all of the floors to the top, sitting on the window sill cutting the beams was not for the faint hearted, the travelling crane in the back ground took the coal from the two outside silos and dropped it into the endless chain of buckets, which took it inside to the upper silos, of the crane we cut away the left hand section and it fell to the left the right hand overhanging section was delt with in the same way, then after cutting through the legs at various points to the top all four legs were cut at the same time until she came down, the cutting was done by a caller shouting how far he had cut and if the rest were about the same nothing was said but should any one be in front they would slow a little but if you were behind you called how far and the rest slowed until you caught up, on the left was the works manager bill Cornish from Cwmbran, the middle was a poole lad kev lambert, and myself on the right, filthy dirty work but a good team of lads with two shifts of squaddies from the marine camp as part timers,
I just had a thought if you look carefully at kev lamberts trousers dirty though they are I am sure they were his (at one time pride and joy) flared tartan bay city rollers strides,
hotel magnum:
I just had a thought if you look carefully at kev lamberts trousers dirty though they are I am sure they were his (at one time pride and joy) flared tartan bay city rollers strides,
Thats a cracker ! Good picture,when would that have been hotel magnum in the 70s ■■ looking at the Bedford Van ?
Heres a couple of pictures of the power station,the second showing the demolition of the two towers in 1993. Apparently they were the tallest building in Dorset when originally built between 1946-1950 at 325 feet !
A couple of the tugs that used to help the ferries dock in bad weather as they never had the side thrusters to help get along side.
The Herbert Ballam
The Kinston lacy
its about 1975 I normally worked the rusty bicycle crawler crane part time, it was stationed at the bucket shaft in the middle of the station between what we called the back of the station and the ash storage buildings in between the two chimney stacks, with lots of pulleys the main line went up the shaft and across to what ever was being brought to the top of the shaft( all the chain buckets in the shaft had been already removed) then a line of maybe 6 buckets were then pulled to the top and lowered by the drag line cable to the ground, the only way to get the crane to the weighbridge building was to track back to the main entrance end (rigler road) across the end of the outdoor silos then all the way to the other end by the waterside cranes, which took nearly all day, especially as it you tried to corner too fast it shed a track,
hotel magnum:
its about 1975 I normally worked the rusty bicycle crawler crane part time, it was stationed at the bucket shaft in the middle of the station between what we called the back of the station and the ash storage buildings in between the two chimney stacks, with lots of pulleys the main line went up the shaft and across to what ever was being brought to the top of the shaft( all the chain buckets in the shaft had been already removed) then a line of maybe 6 buckets were then pulled to the top and lowered by the drag line cable to the ground, the only way to get the crane to the weighbridge building was to track back to the main entrance end (rigler road) across the end of the outdoor silos then all the way to the other end by the waterside cranes, which took nearly all day, especially as it you tried to corner too fast it shed a track,
Thanks for the info i was reading about the power station and some intresting stuff online about it.
The new Cotentin came into service in November 2007.
Thats a nice picture Marc,keep them coming mate !
Another regular through Poole,the Irish really did have some smart looking motors.
Yes i remember Scac Marc. If you have not been to the docks in the last few years you would not recognise that road anymore. All of the old companies,the sand company and concrete works and bolsons shipyard and Corrals the coal merchants have all been replaced by sunseeker,building luxury boats.
Heres a pic looking across at Bolsons ship yard.
Purbeck or Coutances.
Yes Cliff i remember the Calvados ,after they stopped the ltr of spirits or carton of ciggiesthey gave for time a smallish bottle of calva the label said Truckline special reserve and someonesaid it probably came from backdoor of a chemist. This thread has brought back many good memories i never sailed on the Poole Antelope from poole but in the seventies & eighties i used it many times from Regio Calabria to Malta it was called the Ormi (spelling) but inside the plan of the ship still had the original name, if you wanted to eat you had to take something on board with you,it sailed in the evening and took 12hrs .hope you are all still awake Take Care Melv.
