Tinsley towers, the blowdown VIDEO!!!

[bungle666]

this was ace, a f'king BIG bang!!!



was a VERY sad night to see them go, but what the hell, its progress i s'pose!!

anyhow enjoy the VID!!

B..

 

[mr_bones]

Nice one Bungle, glad someone managed to capture it. PMSL at the credits 'starring tinsley cooling towers'!

 

[smileysal]

Nice one mate, glad to see you got it on vid. When you phoned me and mendo, we'd had a few beers, so couldn't go Wish i hadn't have drunk now, really wanted to see this.

(Next time something happens like this, i'm commandeering mendo's car )

Sal

 

[tarboat]

A sad night. Thanks for recording the dastardly deed.

 

[ThenewMendoza]

You have a foul mouth, Bungle, son!! lol. Good vid.

M

Err, Sal, comandeering my car?

 

[smileysal]

lol, oh yes. Ply you with copius amounts of alcohol (more than normal lol) then convince you what a great idea it is to let me drive

Sal

 

[Kaputnik]

Seeing this 'what could have been' clip on youtube seems a bit sad, now....................
http://www.peakdistrictview.com/?page=place&placeid=1625

 

[mortaldecay]

Seeing this 'what could have been' clip on youtube seems a bit sad, now....................
http://www.peakdistrictview.com/?page=place&placeid=1625

What a shame they demolished them, i think that would of made such an interesting structure. A little bit like the modern tate. I love going there and taking photos of the building.

 

[Gibbo]

The main point is that they were structurally unsound. Call me cynical but I'd rather my energy provider get rid and use my electricity payments towards something more useful than spend half a million pounds making them safe.

They should now take the opportunity to make an impressive bridge across that valley, rather than the dated (but very impressive) viaduct which struggles to carry today's volume of traffic.

 

[krela]

They should now take the opportunity to make an impressive bridge across that valley, rather than the dated (but very impressive) viaduct which struggles to carry today's volume of traffic.

I thought they were going to use the land for a biomass electricity plant?

 

[vanburen]

Oh yeah,they were that 'unsound' that when they packed them full of nitro glycerine they failed to bring them completly down even though they had been stood there wobbling for 70 years Just drove by and its looking extremly bald now they've gone

 

[Richard Davies]

I guess the explosion had to be more "controlled" than normal to avoid any damage to the M1.

Yesterday I spotted a group of 5 cooling towers not doing much on the A50 near Derby, does anyone know anything about them.

 

[Burns]

I thought they were going to use the land for a biomass electricity plant?

yep, that's the plan

 

[Kaputnik]

Yesterday I spotted a group of 5 cooling towers not doing much on the A50 near Derby, does anyone know anything about them.

That'll be Willington, mate there are a couple of reports with pics on here, if you do a search.

 

[Neosea]

Oh yeah,they were that 'unsound' that when they packed them full of nitro glycerine they failed to bring them completly down even though they had been stood there wobbling for 70 years Just drove by and its looking extremly bald now they've gone

Its going to be strange only seeing meadow hell shopping centre. Not looking forward to my next drive by.

 

[Richard Davies]

That'll be Willington, mate there are a couple of reports with pics on here, if you do a search.

Thanks for that bit of info. The only time I've up close to one was at a Fidler's Ferry open day in the 1980s.

When I was very young I saw one in Stockport been blown up.

I wasn't sure if cooling towers were also used at gasworks. On the same site in Stockport there was a large gas container that came down a few year later. The site is now a shopping centre, but there are some smaller gas holders on the edge of the site, I guess to hold North Sea gas.