Derelict Water Eaton Grain Silo Oxfordshire Urban Explore

As the Bulldozers are set to go into soon for work to start on Grundons new waste management centre we headed of for one last explore. The Silo was built by the Government in 1940 as a WW2 grain buffer. There's a rail head next to it, so its makes sense that the place might just have been a collection point for harvested or imported grain. It gets unloaded and dried before its blown into the top of the silos. It was still in use until the late 1980's, but today its full of junk outside, a pet supplies company uses some of it and a company stores Vans and skips. There seems to be a number of these concrete grain silos around the country. From what I can asceratin so far, it seems some were built during WW2 and others, such as Haughley Silo in Suffolk, was built post war, during the period of the Korean War, to store Canadian grain in the event of the then much feared Atlantic blockade. Interestingly Haughley Silo is situated on a rail head, would like to know whether others around the country in isolated positions are also on rail heads. I would be very interested if anyone out there can enlarge upon what I have found so far. For all my pictures see www.standingquiet.fotopic.net



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