Hayle power plant

Excellent picture - it s hard to imagine all this was ever there now.

A great deal of the buildings are still there; the older [Arsenic Works] chimney right of centre exists.
Power Station was built 1910, closed and partly demolished 1977.

Looking at the coaster - it must be very late 1960s.

Thanks for the info, treeve; last time I was out that way, all I noticed was the chimney and some foundation remains, although in fairness I wasn t searching for a power station...

Who would?

You d be surprised... some odd sorts go out on the moors hunting down boundary stones, so I m told!

Myself included - I wanted a closer look, but the site looked fairly dangerous; I need more time to get better vantage points some day. That is where the 18x lens come in handy.

isnt that the ICI building on the right of the picture..Hayle during world war 2 was a busy place, generating power,explosive and munitions
factories but suffered only one raid if I remember rightly, I do know that the entire home guard was called out one night for...glow worms

Being a child of the sixties I learnt to swim in the river beside the Power Station (perhaps this is why I glow at night). The Associated Octel Company was also there. The smell of the sulpher always sticks in my mind. On the way to the beach we would buy a bottle of Corona pop from Hancocks Sweet Shop and on the way home we would return the empty bottle in exchange for sixpence. This usually got spent on sweets. One of my favourites was the penny arrow bar.

@fleagle - Ah sweet memories of long ago, spent in halcyon days, without a care ....
Octel started in 1940 on that site.