Archive for the tag 'Cooling Towers'

… of the cooling towers

On Friday I climbed the Wrekin Hill, as did many other local people. The Wrekin was a good vantage point to watch the controlled demolition of the iconic cooling towers that have been prominent in the Ironbridge Gorge since the 1960s.
I am sad to see them go, they were part of [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 8th 2019

Yesterday Mr C and I had an afternoon in Ironbridge so that I could photograph the iconic cooling towers from Dale End Park. They are scheduled for demolition at the end of this week. I wasn’t the only one taking photos, many others had the same idea. I could tell that some of the photographers [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2019

Followed by ‘fine dining’ on the patio…

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2019

8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2013

This photograph depicts the  cooling towers of Ironbrige B power station, which was designed to blend in with it’s surroundings:

Project architect Alan Clark worked closely with landscape architect Kenneth Booth, in order to ensure that the station merged as seamlessly as possible into its natural surroundings.[1] In this respect, the power station is [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 29th 2012