Occidental Oil Refinery
It’s the birth place of Beyond the Point; a location that intrigued and mystified us. The massive site is hidden away on Canvey Island and …
Two Tree Island Old Sewage Works
Two Tree Island was reclaimed from the Thames in the late 1700’s and was used as farmland until 1910 when a sewage works was constructed …
Cliffe Cement Kilns & Slit Trench
The desolate expanse of Cliffe on the Southern side of the Thames has seen little use over history beyond agriculture, defence, and the cement industry. …
Bee Ness Jetty
The Bee Ness jetty was part of the Berry Wiggins & Co Oil refinery, formed in 1922 to supply bitumen (asphalt). By 1924 the company …
Allhallows QF Bomb Decoy
The Allhallows decoy was constructed sometime between 1940 and 1941 to defend oil storage facilities nearby on the Isle of Grain. It was one of …
St Mary’s Marshes Explosives Magazines
In 1891 plans were submitted to build explosive stories, a tramway and cottages south of the River Thames on land known as St Mary’s Marshes. …
Fisons Fertiliser Factory
Fisons Plc was a British pharmaceutical, scientific instruments and horticultural chemicals company established by Edward Packard in 1843. In 1863 he was joined in business by his son, …
Hydraulic Pump Stores
See the abandoned one in our video at 3.35 which we filmed in 2013 prior to demolition Pump stores for the now c2c railway were …
Chafford Gorges
Transformed from chalk industry giants of the 20th Century, these huge craters in the landscape now form nature reserves due to the mineral-rich soils. What’s …
London Gateway Container Port
DP (Dubai Ports) World began to construct a huge shipping container port over the site of the Shell Haven oil refinery in around roughly 2010, …