Didcot towers demolition this Sunday

[EltonFrog]

Is that Didcot towers I can see from Ivinghoe Beacon?

Don’t know , it’s about 40 miles from there.

 

[MontyVeda]

When I was a kid my granddad told me that cooling towers were 'potato boilers'. Of course I believed him. Who wouldn't believe their granddad? For years I imagined them full of spuds and a steady flow of tipper trucks being filled with boiled and mashed potato to be delivered to cafes and canteens throughout the region... I was rather underwhelmed when I learned what they were really for.

 

[classic33]

Will they do better than they did with "Salt and Pepper"?

 

[EltonFrog]

Went up the hill today to take a photo of the Kingpin with the towers in the background.

 

[Blue Hills]

So the kingpin outlives them. Things come, things go, the bike rolls on.

 

[EltonFrog]

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So the kingpin outlives them. Things come, things go, the bike rolls on.

True dat, that particular KP is older than those towers.

On the my ride today thread, there’s a couple more photos from this afternoons ride.

 

[MontyVeda]

looks like it didn't quite go swimmingly!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49375917

 

[ColinJ]

Oops!

 

[EltonFrog]

Oops!

I heard the bang, felt the rumble, then the power went out for about 40 minutes in didcot.

 

[ColinJ]

I heard the bang, felt the rumble, then the power went out for about 40 minutes in didcot.

"It wasn't our fault - we didn't cause it!"

[Time passes... slowly!]

"Well, we might have had something to do with it..."

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I think someone forgot to unplug it.

 

[postman]

It went not to plan.ha ha.Where is Fred Dibnah when you need him.

 

[Pale Rider]

Liebherr blew up an old crane in their yard in Sunderland.

It was supposed to be a controlled demolition, but the blast knocked out several windows in the main stand of the Stadium of Light on the opposite bank of the Wear.

 

[Yellow Fang]

It was a blot on the landscape. You could see them for miles around. I suppose that thin, tall chimney is still there, because that's for Didcot B, the gas powered station. Didcot B is still going, right?

 

[EltonFrog]

It was a blot on the landscape. You could see them for miles around. I suppose that thin, tall chimney is still there, because that's for Didcot B, the gas powered station. Didcot B is still going, right?

B is still going, but the big chimney is coming down in the autumn apparently.