article_snippet: Built in 1912, the part-heritage listed site has had a colourful past, and a tour through the ruins is like stepping back more than 100 years - if you can ignore the crumbling walls, eerie industrial equipment and 100 tonnes of bird droppings which covered the floor of the old dance hall.
article_snippet: Among the items still standing idle inside are the old lockers used by employees and storage rooms which dot the building, in this throwback to a bygone era.
article_snippet: All you see here represents the whole thing from 1912 until the whole thing closed in the 1980s. '
article_snippet: The old boiler houses became a haven for "cave clan" urban explorers and graffiti gangs for more than 30 years before the restoration was undertaken and security beefed up .
article_snippet: The workers' wash rooms, some items fitted before World War I, have been unused for decades .
article_snippet: The dance hall has been cleaned up, if not fully restored.
article_snippet: The lights of days gone by litter the floors of the remaining boiler rooms .
article_snippet: The roof fixed on the main building and dance hall tidied, there is still no access granted to the public, unless you've been taken through the security check and donned the white contamination suit, for concern over lingering levels of asbestos inside.
article_snippet: In 1912, when it was built, there was a certain capacity, and then in the 1920s they had to enlarge it and then the next boiler hall was brought in during the 50s.'
article_snippet: Those were the halcyon days, before the power station was decommissioned on Christmas Day in 1983.
highlights_snippet: The original boiler rooms and machinery have finally been preserved in the part-heritage listed site .
  