Last week of the Tinsley cooling towers.

waveydavey · Post by **waveydavey** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:07 am

Well the famous cooling towers next to the M1 @ jcn 34 only have another 5 days before they are reduced to a pile of rubble. I had a wander down on Sunday evening to get a few last pics, (Along with a few others who'd had the same idea!!!).

It'll not be the same without 'em..... You always knew you were 'home' when you got to the cooling towers.

Cheers

Dave.

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:51 pm

lol

they still doing it in the middle of the night?

i think there should be a meet for it happening

kyle1b1 · Post by **kyle1b1** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:30 pm

yeah supposed to be at 12

think i might be going down to watch them drop

M@Turner · Post by **M@Turner** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:30 pm

Will be the end of an era!!!

Having a get together with family on Saturday for a BBQ with a few of us planning on watching the towers get destroyed after!!

I've heard 2 different times for when they'll be coming down! 1am and 3am!!!

All i know is the via-duct is shut from 10pm sat - 10am Sunday!!

Gonna go take some pics friday morning before work!

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:01 pm

meadowhall are opening their car park as a 'viewing area' but the robbing bastards want money to buy a ticket to go.

i just wanna see it been demolished

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:02 pm

lowdown are planning a meet/watch it time and stuff.

uk-polos one? lol

how many are from near/not to far away?

waveydavey · Post by **waveydavey** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:51 pm

It's looking like there might be a Briskoda meet for this too.... Unfortunately i'm working 12 hour nights on Saturday so will have to do with a last look as i drive past them on Saturday evening..... Then watch what happened on the TV on Sunday.

Cheers

Dave.

waveydavey · Post by **waveydavey** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:46 am

A link to a little article on the BBC website about the demolition.........................

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sout ... 575694.stm

Cheers

Dave.

waveydavey · Post by **waveydavey** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:38 pm

pip_polo wrote:meadowhall are opening their car park as a 'viewing area' but the robbing bastards want money to buy a ticket to go.

i just wanna see it been demolished

Apparantly the viewing from Meadowhell car parks will be free and not charged.......

http://www.meadowhall.co.uk/website/Alt ... 5039837b77

Cheers

Dave.

waveydavey · Post by **waveydavey** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:14 am

Well as you may have seen on the news it didn't go exactly to plan..... Part of the north tower didn't come down untill a couple of hours after the detonation. We were at work and actually watched the final collapse live on one of the traffic cameras on the viaduct!!!!!

We were approx 20 miles away in Doncaster and had the windows in the office open and heard the two bangs and then the long drawn out rumble.... Weird thing was we realised after that the towers had obviously been gone a few seconds before the sound actually got to us.

I called off on the way home yesterday morning at around 7am but couldn't get very close..... It did mean i got the whole of the M1 to myself for about 3 to 4 miles !!!! I was just at jcn 34 when the guys were opening it back up and at that time on a Sunday morning when it was still being put out on the radio that all the roads were still shut i got the motorway to myself.... Very weird experience.... Managed to hit the speed limiter and put the car into limp mode though

Anyhow after my nights i can't sleep now so thought i'd post up some pics i took yesterday evening. The bottom deck of the viaduct was at a virtual standstill due to the amount of people there!!!

Cheers

Dave.

Brad. · Post by **Brad.** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:02 am

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd8_1219557617

Theres a video of it, the shockwave hits that camera pretty bad.

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:46 pm

theres not much debris to say how big they were.. i know there not overly thick but i expected it to be every where

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:24 am

Wow was totally unaware of this! Just watched coverage on the net.

waveydavey · Post by **waveydavey** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:25 am

pip_polo wrote:theres not much debris to say how big they were.. i know there not overly thick but i expected it to be every where

Apparently because of the shape of a cooling tower when they are demolished they just fold in on themselves and all the rubble goes down into the base of the tower. The opposite of a normal chimney stack where when demolished it will fall to one side and spread the debris.

Cheers

Dave.

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:13 am

very well planned lol