Abandoned Ardeer Power Station (video)

[Ross Sturgeon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zStCsnqTXYY

Just thought I would make this small video the other day. I have been meaning to share it on here, Let me also mention that this is a new account that I am using I used to be named under "Ross Sturgeon" the same without the spaces...

[michaelm]

A very interesting and well put together wee video there RossSturgeon - and I see the dug was having a great time!
Hope to see more.

[Hughie]

Let me also mention that this is a new account that I am using I used to be named under "Ross Sturgeon" the same without the spaces...

I can update your old account so you can get back on it. And I can move this post to your 81 other posts on that original account. PM me - there may be PMs sitting in that old account.

[Vivc113]

Loved the video.

The suspense type music at the start... Unsmiling face... And added dog... Brill!!!

Very informative as well.

[meekan]

Great video Ross but I have to say it's sad to see this previously great piece of engineering allowed simply to rot away. If I remember correctly it wasn't in production for all that long certainly not long enough to repay the building costs. Well done!

[Ross Sturgeon]

I would like to say thank you too all the viewers of my small video, I will do some more the next time I am off and I am over that way!

[bonzo]

Good wee video Ross, it's been a good few years since I've had a prugh about down there

[creamolafoam]

Interesting & enjoyable video young fella. Brought it all flooding back. Worked in and around that area for a constuction company right back at the beginning of the eighties. The some total of us was a plumber, two labourers, a delivery driver & a site agent! We were in there for a couple of yrs doing all sorts, along side mccrindle who were there stripping the nylon plant.
I don't know if its possible for you to go further into the factory, re security, but I can tell you the place is vast, like a warren in places as well.
When I left school mid seventies, I went for a couple of interviews, at novels, one was for fitter (never got it, in fact most didn't get it) or into either cannister shop, spiral tube winding ir box factory. I ended up at the spiral & what shock that was to the system after leaving school. As I was on two shifts it was up at 5am in time to clock in at 6.15am, hard going for any 16yr old straight out of school. Great laugh we had in there though.
But when you turned 18 that when you got put into the explosive side of things. And you could have placed anywhere. I ended up at the potash for a few months, bit lonely that was as you worked alone and hardly seen a soul. Then I was put down in the siesmex/slurry & cordite areas.
By christ you to graft down there. Put up with I for a few yrs, but moved over to the nylon plant near the area you were filming.
But I wonder ross if you could go deeper into the place, without occurring any problems with security of course, because you will be surprised by what you will find.

[Vivc113]

Great post Cremola.

My old grandpa worked in the ICI until the 60s I believe. Long service with old Jock Young.

[5siamese7]

Madness takes control is it? It was a horrible place where a lot of people who worked there died.