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cactusmelba
17-05-2009, 07:45 PM
Loads of people have already posted reports on this place, but here's my two penn'orth..

pics..

amperes
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/amperes.jpg

BIG belts (driving the floor manager's cup'o'tea-matic 2000.)
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/belts.jpg

ALWAYS wondered what was behind those round windows.. (not a lot)
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/bluepano.jpg

HUGE boiler..
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/boiler.jpg

some kind of screw conveyor system
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/corkscrew.jpg

MAD elevators...
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/crazyelevator.jpg

detritus
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/extinguisher.jpg

panoramic from the top
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/hdrpanounder_mid_over_tonemapped.jpg

buttons..
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/longworm.jpg

thought I was back home in my study..
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/office.jpg

Brilliant Wooden machinery! this stuff goes on for AGES, immaculately crafted and still looking good as new.. loved it!
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/panelledmachinery.jpg
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/woodenmachinery.jpg
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/simon.jpg
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/6020.jpg
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/inthemachinery.jpg

another couple of panoramics..
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/pano2.jpg
http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr242/cactusmelba/Rank%20Hovis/panohovis1mk2.jpg