Abandoned Industrial Places

David Ross specialises in maritime, engineering and railway history and he has written and contributed to numerous books on these subjects. His most recent books are Abandoned Industrial Places, Rail Journeys, Bridges, Coast, Lighthouses, Ships Visual Encyclopedia, Submarines, and The World’s Greatest Battleships. He lives in England.

• Contents include:IntroductionNORTH AMERICA Marquette Iron Ore Dock, Lake Superior, Michigan Canada Malting Factory, Toronto Don Valley Brickworks plant, Toronto, Ontario Gold mine, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada Old Crow Distillery, Kentucky New Cornelia open-pit copper mine, Pima County, Arizona Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California Carrie Furnace, Braddock, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, New York Redstone missile test site, Huntsville, Alabama Army Ammunition Plant, Indiana Mariscal Mine, River Road, Big Bend National Park, TexasCENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Santa Laura and Humberstone Saltpetre works, Atacama Desert, Chile Petermann Island, Antarctica Hacienda Yaxcopoil near Merida, Mexico, once a hemp or henequen rope factory Camilo Cienfuegos (formerly Hershey) Sugar Works, Cuba Pulacayo, Railway Depot, Potosí Province, Bolivia Leith Harbour Whaling Station, South Georgia Morgan Lewis Mill, Barbados Rincon Nuclear Dome, Puerto RicoEUROPE Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Orford Ness, Suffolk, England Beelitz, nr Berlin, Germany Excavator Factory, Voronezh, Russia Peenemünde Army Research Centre, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany Glassworks, Haidemühl, Brandenburg, Germany Cattle stable, slaughterhouse, Rosenau, Bavaria, Germany Plumain Factory, New Aquitaine, France Coal washing plant, Carmeux, France Cooling Tower, Charleroi, Belgium Mill, Bolton, Lancashire, England Gauges, Flaxmill Maltings, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Tin mine, Towanroath, Cornwall, England Concrete Pagodas, AWRE, Orford Ness, Suffolk – atomic weapons research centre Rotunda, Wola Gasworks, Warsaw, Poland Mine near Pezinok, Slovakia Sugar Factory, Belgrade, Serbia Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, UkraineAFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Lead mine, Morocco Kolmanskop mining town, Namibia Drilling Rig, Namibia Kleinzee mining town, South Africa Vredehoek Quarry, South AfricaASIA AND THE PACIFIC Iron and Steel Mill, Loudi, Hunan, China Hashima, mining island, Japan Mirny Diamond Mine, Eastern Siberia, Russia Buran Transport, Baikonur, Kazakhstan Baikonur Cosmodrome Area 2, Kazakhstan Tin Dredge No. 5, Tanjung Tualak, Perak, Malaysia Mine equipment, Whakaari/White Island, North Island, New Zealand Cockatoo Island Docks, Sydney, Australia