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Williamson Power Station, Lancaster, 2025 (again)

My favourite derelict power station looking resplendent in spring light 🥰
Photographer bait, Lancaster, 2025
Leaving a wee kids’ bike in front of a decaying warehouse on an industrial estate just as the sun sets behind it, to me, is like the proverbial van full of sweets. After deviating from my route back from the gym to take a photo, I’m surprised I’m not in some basement with my face on a milk carton right now.

William Penny’s Almshouses, Lancaster, 2025
Lancaster, 2025
Williamson Power Station, Lancaster, 2025

Now derelict Williamson Power Station, Lancaster. Once used to supply power to the city’s linoleum factory, it has more recently been used for illegally storing compacted waste, which set alight in December 2023. Following the days-long fire and the operation to extinguish it, it now stands mostly empty, fire-damaged but no less immense.
More information and pictures available on the Lancaster Civic Vision website, for those interested.
Lloyds Bank, Lancaster, 2024
The Lancaster Hospital, Lancaster, 2024
I like some of the elements, such as the green roof windows at the rear, the porthole below, and the glass bricks in reception, but clearly the psychiatric hospital in Den Dolder I reblogged yesterday is way more interesting!