I took advantage of an early hours visit to Tinsley towers to get some close up shots before the crowds would be there. 24 hours later the chimneys were blown sky high and reduced to a pile of rubble.
Tinsley cooling towers Sheffield, captured in the early hours of the night before demolition. Tinsley towers were part of the Blackburn Meadows power station and were built in 1938, they are the oldest surviving hyperbolic Cooling Towers in the U.K. The towers are well known landmarks and known as the salt and pepper pot. Tinsley viaduct is a two tier road bridge and the first of its kind in the UK, it carries the M1 and the A631 1033 metres over the Don Valley and was opened in 1968.
Packed with explosives and ready to BLOW!!
There's some good footage of the chimneys been blown up here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7579513.stm
The rest of the pics are here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/sets/72157606901047562/detail/
Tinsley cooling towers Sheffield, captured in the early hours of the night before demolition. Tinsley towers were part of the Blackburn Meadows power station and were built in 1938, they are the oldest surviving hyperbolic Cooling Towers in the U.K. The towers are well known landmarks and known as the salt and pepper pot. Tinsley viaduct is a two tier road bridge and the first of its kind in the UK, it carries the M1 and the A631 1033 metres over the Don Valley and was opened in 1968.
Packed with explosives and ready to BLOW!!
There's some good footage of the chimneys been blown up here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7579513.stm
The rest of the pics are here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/sets/72157606901047562/detail/
Love pic 9 with the moon behind one of them. Cheers. 
