Tinsley cooling towers megathread

[NightFlight 10]

RobS35 - some nice photo's, you need to soften your HDR though, it looks cartoony and unrealistic rather than rich and detailed.

[Funky_Gibbon 42]

I'll probably watch it from Tyler Street since the sound of demolition explosives will no doubt wake me up anyway.

[PrincessKate 10]

Ive been told there is a yard next to the towers which will let you go in but they are charging........

[lpkm 10]

Noooooo! The towers! My precious towers! Cant believe they are going down! Gutted, my grandad used to work there and everything, Sheffield will not be the same!

 

Luke

[04jessops 10]

Some news on Meadowhall website: http://www.meadowhall.co.uk/website/AlternateContentInstance.aspx?ParentSectionId=76def695-b852-47bc-864c-ddcf0d877d58&contentInstanceId=65b46b84-7887-40eb-8910-3c5039837b77

 

That article says they'll be coming down on Sunday morning, but I've just heard a radio advert saying it'll be Saturday.

[fitbird 10]

I wont need to go. I will feel the tremors from it.

[S8 Blade 10]

It'd be nice if they would say to you "be here at this time if you want to see it", as if I get up at that hour in the morning, and get there, to find I've missed it - I'll NOT be happy!!!!

[pikey 10]

As previosly posted the Towers will be blown down At 3am SUNDAY morning , traffic diversions &footpath & road closures will start to happen from aprox 10:30 pm Sat evening

[lpkm 10]

Hey does anybody have ideas for what they could have done with the towers to update them...

 

I reckon they should have kept them and used them for absailing! How cool would that be!

 

Any more ideas?!..

[S8 Blade 10]

As previosly posted the Towers will be blown down At 3am SUNDAY morning , traffic diversions &footpath & road closures will start to happen from aprox 10:30 pm Sat evening

 

I've just never seen anything official saying "blown at 3am", and I don't want to get there to find it's already been done - as I found with Jordanthorpe tower blocks a few years back!

[jibbs1977 10]

Can you imagine if they blow the viaduct up aswell by accident that would be soooo funny , or do I just have a sick sence of humour lol.

[Getcater 10]

I don't know if it's widely known that these are the oldest cooling towers still standing, certainly in the UK and possibly on a global scale. The photographer Bernd Becher took pictures of many in Germany and the USA which were all in a derelict, pre-demolition state, between the 1960s and 1990s.

 

I have a photo project under way, but can't post a link as yet. The images are hosted by photobucket.