The Water Tower baggers thread

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BrumJim

Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
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Drinking water in front of a water tower, near Lapworth, Warwickshire.
 
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Scotchlovingcylist

Formerly known as Speedfreak
Not posted on here for a lonnnnnng time but massively back into cycling this year and came across this thread.
Mappleton water tower on the way to Hornsea yesterday, always fascinated me as a kid and now at 35 years old have finally seen it up close ^_^
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winjim

Smash the cistern
OK, once again no bikes or water towers but a bit of a power station update. I've been checking out some maps and cooling tower layouts and it looks like there's been a mix up, what I thought was Drax power station in fact isn't. So...

This is the view from the top of the hill looking east. I think this is in fact West Burton power station in Nottinghamshire.
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That means that the structure on the horizon here, taken from the same spot in roughly the same direction is possibly Lincoln cathedral, although I can't be sure.
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Just up the road and looking north you get two sets of cooling towers on the horizon. So I think the set on the right of the photo is Drax and the one on the left is Ferrybridge.
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If that's the case then I think the Humber bridge would be to the right of shot, and apparently it's also possible to see York Minster. I need to get out with some binoculars, or at least a decent camera rather than just my phone. Still, that's about a 30 mile radius confirmed with the naked eye over about 90°, which is pretty mad.
 
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