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Cool building. It doesn't match that beautiful main house though. :)

Wow....just wow. That brickwork is amazing.

Yeeeeah, the inside is very simple compared to the outside. It's kind of a shame actually.

Well said autoguy!

So beautiful! Even the doors are cut on top to fit the room. And I agree with Lucie, it would be lovely with gold leaf!

As the granddaughter of a stone mason, that is stunning. You just don't see that anymore. Beautiful!

Oh my gosh, what a beautiful building! Oh and thanks for the new wallpaper (already put that up)!

...Sooo, I shouldn't find this attractive? :(

A lot of this place is still relatively cheery.

The power station, like everywhere else on this campus, has gone to seed quite a bit.

These shots must have been taken some time ago; the place has gone downhill. The stained-glass dome is, thankfully, still intact for the moment. Also, the fireplace is technically not fake. It has a narrow chimney vent.

Stunning. I'd love to recreate this into a painting. Any objections to that, Motts?

This is a conveyor line travelling uphill.

The spots were used to light up the site at night. Being the complex is so massive it was necessary to make sure a great deal of it was lit. Accidents in a coal breaker were relatively low and RAC wanted to keep it that way.

The original plan was to convert the breaker into a museum and actually have parts of it running. That plan has since been scrapped, no pun intended. There was a lot more to this site than meets the eye. Having looked at the original plans, this site is massive, not to mention all of the rail yards that have been torn up and company houses that have been demolished. St. Nick was the largest in the world when it opened in 1933 and is still impressive. Oh, and RAC still uses parts of the site and the surrounding area.