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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 11, 2012 11:49:46 GMT
Goodbye to Richborough Power Station Towers Thousands there to see it. We were there at the crack of dawn and were next to the news cameras in pole position. We still had to defend our view from inconsiderate idiots that tried to muscle their way in during the last half hour. Fortunately the marshals were not allowing anyone nearer than us to the news cameras. Only problem was no tea wagon where we were, topping up now!! ;D ;D     Sav |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 12:17:29 GMT
Now you see 'em and now you don't !
Look at the scale of those rascals against the surrounding poplars.........a quick Wikipedia check reveals that the towers were 318ft tall and the chimbley, at 416ft, taller than Salisbury cathedral !
A great improvement to the landscape, but I'll bet there'll be a few homeless pigeons right now thinking "WTF" ! ;D
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Post by Q on Mar 11, 2012 12:37:17 GMT
Wow, I had no idea they were to be demolished, they may not have been pretty but they were a part of the Kent skyline, I always used to love driving down past them, a clear indication that I was nearly at journeys end.
I for one will miss them :'(
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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 11, 2012 12:50:48 GMT
It really seemed strange driving back without those monsters there. Amusing that, twenty years ago, everybody hated the orimulsion emissions that left black soot everywhere, now they were campaigning to save them!!
Absolutely surgical slice around the top of the reinforced area at the base of each tower, fascinating to watch happen with a thousand odd people all counting down with the marshalls' radio sets and clapping after.
As close as we were it still took a good second for the enornous bangs to follow the flashes.
Different view from our hilltop location now ten miles away.
Sav
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 18:11:19 GMT
I for one will miss them :'( You can still drive past the Didcot ones if you care to enter the Oxon Open next year. ;) |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 11, 2012 19:02:37 GMT
Sav wants an action replay
Watch it in full screen if you can.
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Post by Colemanator on Mar 11, 2012 19:35:26 GMT
Good riddance 8-)
Those ones at Didcot are awful, fancy wanting to live by them ;)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2012 19:43:40 GMT
I hpe the seal colony were not disturbed to much.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2012 13:08:12 GMT
Margo says that there was a news feature on this on National TV yesterday morning. 8-)
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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 15, 2012 13:36:06 GMT
Curiosity,
Could anyone actually view the vid?? my media player played it ok
Sav
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2012 14:32:11 GMT
Yeah, really good.
Quite a time delay with the speed of sound.
Some good comments, too: "Can we have an action replay ?" and "That was just the rehearsal", etc.
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Post by Sparky on Mar 15, 2012 18:16:13 GMT
Yeah, really good. Quite a time delay with the speed of sound. Some good comments, too: "Can we have an action replay ?" and "That was just the rehearsal", etc. Ditto for me, and just replayed it in case of recent problem. |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Mar 15, 2012 18:21:58 GMT
Thanks, I was surprised how few views it has had compared with far poorer videos.
Sav
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