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Thorpe Marsh was commissioned in 1959 as a prototype for large, modern (at the time), UK power stations. The station was closed down in 1994, most of the site has now been demolished and the rest striped bare. The site itself consists of 6 cooling towers, cut off railway tracks & station. Before you got to the cooling towers (depending on which way you travel) is a small crane loading station.
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Firstly are my shots from the Crane Station
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Entering the site an starting our explore
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Railway Sidings
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The full site was not explored as there was company in the form of security & JCB

Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed & let me no what you think


Been for a re-visit with towd MegaDOOMER an got to see a lot of stuff that was missed on my first visit, please check Mege Doomer post as he has got some really nice shots

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=11968&highlight=megadoomer

but now on with mine shots

'Pig in Poo' springs to mind, Yes we made it to the top of the Hooper!​
Shot of pipe work an valves
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More pipe work to 1 of the towers, bit of pigeon love aswell
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Gave Mega Doomer a bit of head spin with my antics to get this shot, every entertaining!
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Stairs from top of Hooper down
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Victory Shot after getting back down the Hooper an as always the decent was a lot harder than the climb. But well worth the effort!
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After playing in the railway siding found a stairwell that lead to a dark, dark room which were assuming was the machine room for the belt conveyor system that could possibly still be under the water
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After playing in the dark an not noticing the light writting oppertunaty we moved to to access the warehouse / workshop area at the bottom of the site an had to get a shot of this on the way!
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Couple of nice reflection shots from inside the warehouse space
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An finally on leaving the site i have to get a shot of the site sercurity system
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All these padlocks oon a gate that is only just over wasit hieght!​
 
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Nice shots mate, you dont see many power stations about. theres one near here i fancy doing.
Good post.:)
 
Yeah, I'd love to do this one too, it seems bigger and more intact than willington. are all of the towers stripped inside, or do any still have their interior architecture?
 
Yeah, I'd love to do this one too, it seems bigger and more intact than willington. are all of the towers stripped inside, or do any still have their interior architecture?

The 1 decent inside shot i got is how most of them look, anything that was worth anything has striped or stolen... An demolition still continues, so not sure how long they will be there.
Saying that tho i have heard stories saying that they cant demolish the towers as the explosion needed to take them down would take out the canal that lies next to it.
 
The 1 decent inside shot i got is how most of them look,

one of them is still pretty much fully intact inside (search the other reports on here) you can climb up the inside of it each layer is like a whole new world.
 

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