Refinery Collection

Tate & Lyle Refinery
A coastal barge sailing by the famous Tate and Lyle sugar refinery works, Plaistow Wharf, off Silvertown, North Woolwich, east London

Queens Dock, Swansea
Aerial view of the Queens Dock, Swansea, Wales. The Queens dock was opened in 1920 following the construction of oil handling/import facilities at the nearby BP oil refinery at Llandarcy

Oil Tankers of the Manchester Oil Refinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Fireless Locomotives - Llandarcy, Wales. Oil storage depots and oil handling docks used fireless locomotives (steam was pumped in to a specially constructed usually dome-ended boiler)

Advertisement for Esso Petroleum -- reflections on car bodies at Fawley Refinery, Hampshire. 1959

Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea, Wales
The tank farm at the Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea, Wales - built by British Petroleum Oil between 1918-22

Blitz in London -- damage to tanks, Thames Haven, WW2
Blitz in London -- damage to tanks and pipelines at Thames Haven, near Thurrock, Essex, 7 September 1940. The ground was covered with spilt oil which was subsequently ignited during an attack

BOILERS
Babcock & Wilcox boilers at the Standard Oil Companys refinery at Greenpoint, Long Island, New York [USA]

Oil Refinery at Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean island
circa 1910s

Sugar factory, St. Mary, Jamaica, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Canvey Island protest
Residents of Canvey Island, Essex, protest in central London, expressing their opposition to the proposed expansion of the petrochemical industry on the island

Fawley Oil Refinery
An aerial view of the 3, 200 ft long jetty at the Esso oil refinery, Hampshire, England. Three of the four breasting islands are shown, which are able to berth four tankers simultaneously

Pears Soap Works 1882
Exterior of Pears Soap Works at at Lanadron, Isleworth. Date: 1882

Kuwait: the single oilfield whose yield now exceeds Persias highest production. Page from the Illustrated London News, 22nd December 1951. Date: 1951

Pan floor, Hershey Sugar Refinery, Central Hershey, Cuba. Date: circa 1920

Oil Refinery at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada
British American Oil Refinery at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. Date: circa 1930

FUSHIN COLLIERY, CHINA
Large scale oil works at the Fushin coal mines, China. Date: 1930s

Canadas part in the Somme advance, Matania, WW1
Canadas part in the Somme advance - a brilliant affair at Courcelette. The capture of the sugar refinery at Courcelette by the Canadians on 15 September 1916

Abadan Oil Refinery from the air
Abadan oil refinery, Iran (Persia) from the air. The largest in the world at that time on the Shatt al-Arab Waterway (the southern end of which forms the border with Iraq). Date: 1951

Oil refineries and factories at Baku, Azerbaijan. Date: circa 1910s

Georgia - Batumi - Mantascheff Oil Refinery
The Mantascheff Oil Refinery at Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum) a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia

Bench 30 at Abadan
Abadan is a city on Abadan Island in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran, close to the border with Iraq. Rich oil fields were discovered in the area in the early 20th century

La Sucrerie, Ham, Somme, northern France, WW1
La Sucrerie (sugar refinery), Ham, Somme, northern France -- taking back lost territory during the First World War. 1917

Sugar mill machinery
Diagrams showing part of the elevation and plan of an improved sugar refinery by Edward Woollery Esq of Jamaica. Date: 18th century

Sugar Refinery. Illustration by Jan van Grevenbroeck or Grevenbroch (1731-1807) in Treaty of uses and customs of the time, s. XVIII. Early Modern Era. Watercolour. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Museo Correr

Mexico. Tula. Refinery
MEXICO. HIDALGO. Tula. Oil refinery. Toltec art. Sculpture

Caspian Sea Shore - oil refinery near Krasnovodsk town - oil pollution along the water edge. Turkmenistan. April

Sugar Refinery in Usak, Turkey Date: circa 1935

Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies - Oil Refineries at Pointe-a-Pierre Date: circa late 1930s

Oil refinery fire. Buncefield Terminal, Hertfordshire
Oil refinery fire. Buncefield Terminal, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

Brigade Command Unit at the scene of oil refinery fire
Brigade Command Unit at the scene of an oil refinery fire, Buncefield, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

Azerbaijan - Baku - scenes of the oil fields (with gushing well), factories/refineries and the waterfront (with tram)

Medinoil Lubricating Oil
A large enamel sign advertising Medinoil - Motor Lubricating Oil. Manufactured in England by Medina Refinery Limited of London SE8. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Oil Pipelines - Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea
A row of eight oil pipelines at the Llandarcy BP Oil Refinery, Swansea, Wales

Loading Rail Tank Wagons - Llandarcy, Wales
Loading BP Rail Tank Wagons - at the BP oil refinery at Llandarcy, Swansea, Wales

Gas Absorbtion Plant - Iraq
Gas Absorbtion Plant - industrial buildings and plant relating to BPs oil exploration in Iraq

Primitive Oil Refinery in Iraq or Iran

Gold at Monte Rosa 4
Miners bring the excavated ore to the refinery for crushing and extraction

Oil Refinery Sunset
Sunset over an oil refinery near Swansea, South Wales

Bristol Sugar Refinery
Workers shovel sugar at the Counterslip refinery in Bristol, England

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