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maxpower wrote:..........
Level crossing, or what's left of it.............
maxpower wrote:I've been trying to find a picture of the plant when it was still up but nothing so far.
Ronnie wrote:Hi Max
Scran has a photograph captioned "ICI Dyestuffs plant at Ardeer" which might be what you are looking for. Lovely pix, btw.
Best, R
Renfrew Ross wrote:I used to holiday at the 'bold' Sandylands on Stevenson/Saltcoats border when I was a lad between 1983-1992-ish and recall seeing a lot of works at Ardeer (and hearing a few bangs) if my memory serves me right.
maxpower wrote:I recall when I was wee that you could see the large chimney from miles around. What's left now is a eerie network of roads with the occasional object/landmark lying about.
maxpower wrote:Yeah the bangs would have been coming from the Nobel plant next door, and it is still open, though only employs something like 300 people compared to the 15,000 it used to. Don't hear much noise from it these days, infact can't remember the last time I heard anything from it.
The Nylon Plant was still mostly intact (though disused) until about 1995, so you may well have seen it!
I think this was the Nylon plant, in the 70s:
There's nothing left of this now though, infact I think my picture of the weighbridge above is where one of the large towers stood.
There are big plans in development I believe for the whole peninsula, they are wanting to turn the entire area into a big housing estate over the next 20 years.
Sandpiper wrote:Cheers Max,
The tall chimney to the left was the nitric acid plant. I was also positive the construction to the far left was still standing. There is a plant looks like it is still standing, obviously somewhere else on site.
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