Locals React To Cooling Towers Being Blown Up | Scrap Kings
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In West Yorkshire, locals watch as four of the seven abandoned cooling towers are demolished.
Catch full episodes of your favourite Quest shows here:
www.discoveryp...
Subscribe to Quest TV for more great clips:
/ subscription_c. .
Follow Quest on Twitter:
/ questtv
Fifty years of history wiped out in a few seconds.
I'm glad they didn't demalish all of them. 3 of them are staying up. For possible reuse with a new CCGT station. That seems a bit unlikely, but I like the idea of keeping some of the old in with the new. Plus the original turbine hall of the A station from the 1920s still stands. I know to most people they are just huge machines that keep the lights on, but to the local people they do represent a local history and a way of life.
The twin chimneys and adjacent boiler hall are going on the 24th August. Four towers at Eggborough went this morning.
@@al66class59 Really!? I had been trying to find out for months about what they were planning to do at Eggborough but could find literally nothing!
Persumably they don't publicise it to avoid large crowds gathering nearby (?)
@@soundseeker63 Yep, really. I was told about it a week before the event, and upon going to take photos of the towers before they were blown up, the only indication anything was happening on the site was 'major planned construction works' signs, on the road passing the cooling towers and the A-road going past the plant's main entrance, indicating that they were going to be closed all day on the 1st August.
There were also black bags wrapped around the legs of the cooling towers (to contain the explosives). The indication given on the 31st (the day before) was that it'd likely be an 11am demolition, but they blew them up three hours earlier, just after 8am.
All of the publicity (or lack thereof) was indeed to reduce crowds. The exclusion zone was heavily guarded, although given how close one road is to the towers, that makes sense.
I think Ferrybridge's boiler hall and twin chimneys will go down in the same fashion, when their day comes at the end of the month. They're apparently due to go on the 22nd (as opposed to the 24th as stated earlier).
All gone now the last three went in March
All three gone
Look at all the beautiful sun light everyone gets to see, the sky is so beautiful to see now.😀😀😀😀😀
Nah, looked better when the cooling towers were up.
The narrator says “no one knows what will happen next”. I’m sorry is this the first demolition in the history of the world?
Now, I could understand the BBC reporting the collapse of these towers 20 minutes before the did actually collapse. Unlike as with World Trade Center Building 7 on the day of 9/11. A 47 floor steel framed building that also fell at free fall speed in a completely symmetrical fashion.
Well that's weird , how could that 7 have fallen like that then without help from explosive Tech's?....or Thermite..?
@@s4dreamland671 I couldn't. The collapse of WTB7 was a clear case of controlled demolition. A job carried out by professionals using various types of high explosives.
@@NowisEvollovetion So , what your saying is you believe the main support beams were burned on an angle using for example thermite to cause the complete shift of the main structure . And precise column splicing to have it come down straight ?? What the hell?. So , would you say the all mighty dollar and a excuse to invade Iraq for oil purposes had something to do with it and collateral damage was huge and inevitable ? In your opinion , would you say the death of Saddam Hussein eliminated the one person that kept the middle East in check?
fiddlers ferry will be going the same way next year
That'll be a bummer. Made good £ on the outages there.
These boilers manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox, could have lasted another 50 years with some modifications, and the burners changed to burn LNG, I worked in the design office in the London head office on this plant plus many others, some of technology today is dated, but now we face a crisis, where many base load stations like Ferry bridge have been demolished,, Our country has run out of options currently due to the stupidity of ministers in various governments not understanding the logic of having this type of power plant , I do not know of a single windmill that can produce 2000 megawatts of power. let alone 8000 megawatts that this station produced,
Paint them with tasteful art.
At least he rain helped to keep the dust down.
Pity Fred Dibah wasn't here to take them down by hand.
All those cooling towers have sunglasses on?
Or is it just me seeing things? xD
"There goes part o' our ghetto. So sad. But gee! 'Ere! Ee'gettin' a WOLmaht!!
WOW Looks just like Building 7
Look familiar?!! Maybe a little like THE TWIN TOWERS!!! EXACTLY!!! 😣
That kid saying bloody hell is pretty funny
History is now in piece hats down
Why are they keeping three towers if it’s shutdown
darius318 it says they are getting rid of the others also
Maybe for safety reasons?
Hate to be on FaceTime with that lady ... I saw ur face the whole time u dint switch the camera
next time dont put cursing women it the video. not appealing. it felt like the video was about her and not about the buildings. great to see they gone. skyline looks much better
get parenting at 5:45. letting the young kid just say what he wants. if I were to cuss and stuff in front of my dad....I wouldn't have been able to sit down for a week...lol. kids dont respect their parents as much in the U.K. this is obvious...
Kids swear because parents swear and make them think it's okay