Waterworks slab The building stood between closure

The building stood between closure and demolition

housed the administration of a company whose precision-engineered machines counted bets at racecourses across 29 countries

cutting progressively deeper through a Jurassic volcanic neck up to 120 metres deep

beneath a ceiling of collapsed tiles and loose strip lighting

The grinding pans and press machinery retained here represent the same fundamental technology introduced with the industrialisation of brickmaking in the latter nineteenth century

Waterworks slab The building stood between closureThe domestic water system of MV Cape Don, photographed at Balls Head Bay in 2016: water pressure tanks at left, freshwater pumps and hot water boiler spanning the frame, with the base of the starboard general service pump in the foreground and fuel oil pumps at left. The two SSG generators and the main 5 cylinder Polar diesel are visible at rear. Part of the MV Cape Don series.