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Willington Cooling Towers, Derbyshire - May 2015

hamtagger

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Willington Cooling Towers

The Explore

Stopped off here with Fatpanda and Raz a few weeks ago on the way home from our primary targets and the sheer size of them amazed me. I would highly recommend giving these an hour of your time if you're ever in the area. The echo was crazy too, I spent quite a while shouting expletives upwards to amusingly hear them rebounding around :D

The History

Robbed from Paulpowers

In the 1950s, two coal-fired power stations were built on a site off Twyford Road, between Willington and Findern. The stations were privatized and sold to National Power in the early 1990s and eventually closed in the mid-1990s. Although most of the stations were demolished at the turn of the millennium, the five cooling towers continue to dominate the skyline of the local area. The site is earmarked for a large residential development, pending the results of a public inquiry. The construction plans have been met with local opposition, perhaps due to the site's proximity to the River Trent's flood plain.

In the mid-1990s a pair of peregrine falcons nested in one of the site's huge cooling towers. Unlike many bird of prey breeding sites, this was widely publicized because of its impregnable location.

The Pictures

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I had to walk back about 40 miles to get these massive feckers in frame with my kit lens...

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Just to give a bit of scale to these massive towers...

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As always cheers for looking and feedback always appreciated (y)


 

-Raz-

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ace mate some nice ones there :D

 

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I have to see these for myself. Ive seen them from the Motorway, but that pic of you at the bottom, makes them looks massive!! Cool shots

 

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Very nice mate - hugeness is to be wondered.

Didn't fancy a climb? :)

 

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Love the look of these mate, Id recommend is you have never been or seen a cooling tower then defo worth a vist.

The size alone is breath taking and more are being domolished all the time.

The ones in Richborough Kent were cool lol

https://youtu.be/OmUvVOSe3Ho

 
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