April 30, 2018

Fuller Earth Works - RedHill Surrey

Fuller Earth Works Red Hill 


Location: Red hill 
Date: 29-04-2018 

* AS FROM 2020 - SITE BEEN DEMOLISHED *


History :  
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/urban-explorers-reveal-remains-redhills-14790174

For more than 100 years, the Copyhold Works of the Fuller's Earth Union Ltd extracted the grey, mineral-rich clay known as "fuller's earth" and sold it on to a range of sectors from the wool trade to the oil industry.

It's also used as cat litter, and while most fuller's earth is now imported, until 1997 Redhill was one of only three sites in the UK where the valuable substance could be quarried




























Dorking Deepdene Railway Control center

Dorking Deepdene Railway control Centre 



Location : Dorking
Date: 29-04-2018 




History:
https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/deepdene-ww2-southern-railway-traffic-control-centre/ 
The bunker was constructed within the caves which were enlarged to house the 30 staff and once complete their emergency headquarters with office staff was moved there from Waterloo. The network of tunnels included a Control Room, meeting room, switchboard, battery room, main distribution frame (MDF)/maintainers room, a bedroom for the night officer and an air plant and toilet facilities. The switchboard was a three-positioned installation with Post Office lines and extensions serving the headquarters staff with direct lines to the various divisional traffic and engineering officers; it was in use 24 hours a day. 























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