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Herbivore
18-09-2010, 04:18 PM
Not much to say about this place. Built for oil storage and converted into an air raid shelter.
Like the West Mills, it has a very high ceiling.

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KingElvis
18-09-2010, 06:50 PM
Nice work, is there anything BUT tunnels in Dover LOL
Clough
19-09-2010, 12:23 AM
They got some good stuff in Dover!
Midnight Rambler
19-09-2010, 07:24 PM
Love the painting and lights!
Herbivore
20-09-2010, 07:56 PM
Very nice mate, that place is an absolute nightmare to light up, its hard to portray the scale of this place in pictures. I was in the West oil mills the other week and gave up trying to take pictures as my searchblaster died. Didn't know they had been turned into shelters either, I thought they stored oil there during WW2.

You're right, of course. The tunnel is mainly two colours: Black and white, trying to get the right exposure is a nightmare.
The WW2 oil stores were at the Eastern Docks. These tunnels held oil for industry; cotton-seed oil linseed etc. The tunnels date to the end of the 1700s at least, and as well as storing oil, they could hold 800 tons of the stuff, they also contained seeds, several 50 ton presses, grinders, engines, pumps, hundreds of tons of coal...All destroyed by a fire in the mid 1800s.