Stumbling from the darkness, eyes becoming once again accustomed to daylight, wondering, where if anywhere, there is to go now, has the luck run out? Am I about to be nabbed by Falkenservice Security?

"You are fucking joking, aren't you?"

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That might have looked easy, but it wasn't, the damn bloody window kept swinging closed every time my back nudged it, as once again headfirst onto a less than forgiving concrete floor.

C'mon
le's mooch

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Some lovely bits of antique machinery, Love this manually operated press 1926

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Windows could do with a clean

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Somehow just following my nose I found myself at the business end of the power plant

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HISTORY

At the time it was built, in 1926, the plant was one of the largest burners of lignite coal in europe. It continued to expand up until the second world war.

At the end of hostilities the plant closed for a short period until the Soviets put it back into use, it continued to generate electricity up until 1992, when it was finally shut down, as the proposal to convert to burning natural gas would have proved to expensive.

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Boiler No 1

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Every boiler needs a pressure gauge, every workplace needs a clock

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The control desks for the 3 boilers

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Access for raking out the clinker and ashes

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Now I wonder where this leads...........