mushroomman:
Hi Chris, I don’t think that it is Tees Storage at Seal Sands as I can’t remember seeing those high voltage power lines so close to the storage tanks
I don’t know where it is, but I don’t reckon they are HV lines if that helps identification…
mushroomman:
Now that Andy has mentioned Holliday wasn’t it L.B. or J.B. Holliday .
I think they were originally called L.B.Holliday, before my time though Steve I remember they had a bit of an explosion back in the early 90s when it was very De Rigeur in the area, Allied Colloids and Hickson & Welch doing the same thing around that time, fortunately only Hickson’s one resulting in loss of life IIRC
Hya just had a look on Google street map at Tees Storage you can see the H.V lines plainly they are further away than they look.Ithink that photo is quite old and thats the old gate, a newer gate is just down the road showing the double weighbridge rather than the old single.Cheers Ted.
hya Chris thanks for the pics,sad to see Vinatex in such a state,but i suppose nothing lasts forever good job while it lasted Cheers Ted PS got a couple of pics somewhere taken in VINATEX see if i can find them.
Chris Webb:
Where’s this place,anybody know? I thought it might be Seal Sands Storage or whatever it was called.There was a load of tank farms in that area,ICI North Tees was another IIRC.Not been up there for nearly twenty years.
It’s a Freighthire ERF on the bridge and a Bulkhaul ERF on the left.
Chris. I would say that is (CFC) Cargo Fleet Chemicals on Pine Street, Cargo Fleet. It may be called Univar nowadays
I thought about that place Malc.I went in a couple of times with some crap from Ulverston but I didn’t think it was as big a place as that.And Steve I don’t recall those power lines either at Tees Storage plus as you say their was an in and out weighbridge.
Looks like you get a cigar Malc, I’ll keep it for you when you come for the TT
Looking at this again I think it is Tees Storage Seal Sands, now Vopak, the pylons are there, the number of tanks and the single plate bridge. Pine Street Cargo Fleet had many more sheds and drumming points I think
Chris Webb:
Where’s this place,anybody know? I thought it might be Seal Sands Storage or whatever it was called.There was a load of tank farms in that area,ICI North Tees was another IIRC.Not been up there for nearly twenty years.
It’s a Freighthire ERF on the bridge and a Bulkhaul ERF on the left.
Chris. I would say that is (CFC) Cargo Fleet Chemicals on Pine Street, Cargo Fleet. It may be called Univar nowadays
I thought about that place Malc.I went in a couple of times with some crap from Ulverston but I didn’t think it was as big a place as that.And Steve I don’t recall those power lines either at Tees Storage plus as you say their was an in and out weighbridge.
Looks like you get a cigar Malc, I’ll keep it for you when you come for the TT
Looking at this again I think it is Tees Storage Seal Sands, now Vopak, the pylons are there, the number of tanks and the single plate bridge. Pine Street Cargo Fleet had many more sheds and drumming points I think
Chris Webb:
Where’s this place,anybody know? I thought it might be Seal Sands Storage or whatever it was called.There was a load of tank farms in that area,ICI North Tees was another IIRC.Not been up there for nearly twenty years.
It’s a Freighthire ERF on the bridge and a Bulkhaul ERF on the left.
Chris. I would say that is (CFC) Cargo Fleet Chemicals on Pine Street, Cargo Fleet. It may be called Univar nowadays
I thought about that place Malc.I went in a couple of times with some crap from Ulverston but I didn’t think it was as big a place as that.And Steve I don’t recall those power lines either at Tees Storage plus as you say their was an in and out weighbridge.
Looks like you get a cigar Malc, I’ll keep it for you when you come for the TT
Looking at this again I think it is Tees Storage Seal Sands, now Vopak, the pylons are there, the number of tanks and the single plate bridge. Pine Street Cargo Fleet had many more sheds and drumming points I think
Well,you can still have a cigar Malc
This is definately Vopak (Tees Storage) Seal Sands, this entrance now leads to the visitors/staff car park, the truck entrance is out of shot to the left with an in and out w/bridge, the w/bridge cabin in the picture is now the security cabin and the the little concrete garage to the right of the ERF is still there. Mizzo.
Chris Webb:
Thanks Mizzo,we can put it to rest now
ORRRR do we have to .
After having a meeteeeen, wiv the commiteeee, and after having another good look at the photo we have decided that Mizzo is right .
Although I can never remember what looks like a giant pressure vessel at the back of the photo ( or is one of the tanks overflowing ) and I didn’t think that there was that many tanks in 1990. That red garage threw me off track as well as I knew that the brew room was a lot bigger than that but now I can make out the white gutter boards on the brew/ safety room.
Now it’s got me thinking again , just before you arrived at the Tees Storage gate, about a kilometre before it on the left, there was a large red and white stripped building/ chemical plant with a huge red windsock. I can only remember delivering there on Saturdays and I can’t think of the name of the company so can anybody help me with the name of it .
Chris Webb:
Thanks Mizzo,we can put it to rest now
ORRRR do we have to .
After having a meeteeeen, wiv the commiteeee, and after having another good look at the photo we have decided that Mizzo is right .
Although I can never remember what looks like a giant pressure vessel at the back of the photo ( or is one of the tanks overflowing ) and I didn’t think that there was that many tanks in 1990. That red garage threw me off track as well as I knew that the brew room was a lot bigger than that but now I can make out the white gutter boards on the brew/ safety room.
Now it’s got me thinking again , just before you arrived at the Tees Storage gate, about a kilometre before it on the left, there was a large red and white stripped building/ chemical plant with a huge red windsock. I can only remember delivering there on Saturdays and I can’t think of the name of the company so can anybody help me with the name of it .
From my memories of Seal Sands, there was calor on the roundabout, then a fire station, a long road before you came to BASF on the right, one other place on the right just before BASF where I spent weeks if not months loading and waiting for railway inspectors. The other one I remember was Chemoxy International, but I think the red and white buildings were Conoco. Upto the bend where Tees Storage were located then along towards Simons or Seal Sands Storage.
Come on, indulge me, there are many name changes along the way. Dow, Ineos, Fine Organics
Chris Webb:
Thanks Mizzo,we can put it to rest now
ORRRR do we have to .
After having a meeteeeen, wiv the commiteeee, and after having another good look at the photo we have decided that Mizzo is right .
Although I can never remember what looks like a giant pressure vessel at the back of the photo ( or is one of the tanks overflowing ) and I didn’t think that there was that many tanks in 1990. That red garage threw me off track as well as I knew that the brew room was a lot bigger than that but now I can make out the white gutter boards on the brew/ safety room.
Now it’s got me thinking again , just before you arrived at the Tees Storage gate, about a kilometre before it on the left, there was a large red and white stripped building/ chemical plant with a huge red windsock. I can only remember delivering there on Saturdays and I can’t think of the name of the company so can anybody help me with the name of it .
From my memories of Seal Sands, there was calor on the roundabout, then a fire station, a long road before you came to BASF on the right, one other place on the right just before BASF where I spent weeks if not months loading and waiting for railway inspectors. The other one I remember was Chemoxy International, but I think the red and white buildings were Conoco. Upto the bend where Tees Storage were located then along towards Simons or Seal Sands Storage.
Come on, indulge me, there are many name changes along the way. Dow, Ineos, Fine Organics
Hi Malc, Fine Organics , now that name rings a very rusty old bell and it might be the name of the red and white stripped place that I was thinking off.
Wheel Nut:
Come on, indulge me, there are many name changes along the way. Dow, Ineos, Fine Organics
It’s actually quite staggering the number of name changes at such plants over recent times - back in 2008/2009 I was delivering big electrical kit from ABB Finland to the massive new LDPE plant being built at Wilton by/for Huntsman just before Christmas
By the time we came back to deliver the compressor (and I mean compressor: biggest single section 130 tonne, total built weight 200te plus ) from Nuovo Pignone in Italy first week of January, the whole shooting match including the half built plant had been flogged - sorry for the pun - to SABIC Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
Chris Webb:
Thanks Mizzo,we can put it to rest now
ORRRR do we have to .
After having a meeteeeen, wiv the commiteeee, and after having another good look at the photo we have decided that Mizzo is right .
Although I can never remember what looks like a giant pressure vessel at the back of the photo ( or is one of the tanks overflowing ) and I didn’t think that there was that many tanks in 1990. That red garage threw me off track as well as I knew that the brew room was a lot bigger than that but now I can make out the white gutter boards on the brew/ safety room.
Now it’s got me thinking again , just before you arrived at the Tees Storage gate, about a kilometre before it on the left, there was a large red and white stripped building/ chemical plant with a huge red windsock. I can only remember delivering there on Saturdays and I can’t think of the name of the company so can anybody help me with the name of it .
From my memories of Seal Sands, there was calor on the roundabout, then a fire station, a long road before you came to BASF on the right, one other place on the right just before BASF where I spent weeks if not months loading and waiting for railway inspectors. The other one I remember was Chemoxy International, but I think the red and white buildings were Conoco. Upto the bend where Tees Storage were located then along towards Simons or Seal Sands Storage.
Come on, indulge me, there are many name changes along the way. Dow, Ineos, Fine Organics
Hi Malc, Fine Organics , now that name rings a very rusty old bell and it might be the name of the red and white stripped place that I was thinking off.
Regards Steve.
You are right on that one;- Fine Organics now Degussa i think. Mizzo.
As late as 1979 BP Chemicals at Baglan Bay,Llandarcy and Grangemouth were issueing delivery notes with the old company header - Forth Chemicals,and IIRC it was British Hydrocarbons before that.
Nice shots and memories of Shaws Fuels & Sykes Bulk liquids, brought back some happy memories
worked for shaws fuels out of Fleet Lane Woodlesford, about a lifetime ago !
freddyboy:
Nice shots and memories of Shaws Fuels & Sykes Bulk liquids, brought back some happy memories
worked for shaws fuels out of Fleet Lane Woodlesford, about a lifetime ago !
Hi freddy if you go to the photo section there is a thread of Shaws Fuels and Sykes Bulk Liquids I was at Shepley 75 to 84 so it is possible we know each other and Steve Cook another bulk liquids driver at Shepley is a member on here and uses his own name.
regards Johnnie
As the years go by the amount of nasties being moved around in tanks continues to reduce, i think the pressure from enviromentalists, Elf and safety and respect for the living is starting, or continues to make companies find other ways of achieving their aims. I remember all the stuff that was used to make basics such as toothpaste, washing powder etc, now has the same affect but with less harmfull ingriedients. just look at all the chemical manufacturing companies that have dissapeared, and its not because those remaining are producing more, its just dissapearing
Don’t get me wrong, theres still a lot of it about, but its transported better, stewarded better, and reducing in volume fast.
And have you noticed how it still seems to be mainly in the North - that’ll be Cheshire salt plains again then !!
Sniffy:
As the years go by the amount of nasties being moved around in tanks continues to reduce, i think the pressure from enviromentalists, Elf and safety and respect for the living is starting, or continues to make companies find other ways of achieving their aims. I remember all the stuff that was used to make basics such as toothpaste, washing powder etc, now has the same affect but with less harmfull ingriedients. just look at all the chemical manufacturing companies that have dissapeared, and its not because those remaining are producing more, its just dissapearing
Don’t get me wrong, theres still a lot of it about, but its transported better, stewarded better, and reducing in volume fast.
I totally agree with you even though it is 20 years since I was on tankers, when I first started on tankers in the 70s a general purpose tanker driver tramping would carry anything from real nasties to food stuffs in the same tank and then when the hazchem scheme was introduced things started to improve and tanks were then dedicated to certain types of loads and a lot more training and information was given to the drivers.
cheers Johnnie
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I remember they had a bit of an explosion back in the early 90s when it was very De Rigeur in the area, Allied Colloids and Hickson & Welch doing the same thing around that time, fortunately only Hickson’s one resulting in loss of life IIRC
Well,you can still have a cigar Malc
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room.
) from Nuovo Pignone in Italy first week of January, the whole shooting match including the half built plant had been flogged - sorry for the pun - to SABIC Saudi Basic Industries Corporation