69. Floor over basement 31/5/21.
The photo is taken from the end of 1 mc whose soleplates are visible in the foreground. The NG track leading into the service tunnel can just be made out, and the tops of the concrete foundations for 2 mc supercalender. Stacks of Hi-rib ready to carry the vaulting over the basement here, an area know to some in my time as ‘Piccadily Circus’, it later housed the solvo pulper for 2 mc reel up after the 1975 rebuild, the starch tanks for the size press and some device for oil / water separation (part of the lubrication system? Alfa-Laval?).
