Monday, March 12, 2012

Demolition of Richborough Power Station - Pictures

At 9 AM on Sunday 11th March fifty years of Kent history ended in less than fifty seconds when the three cooling towers and chimney of Richborough Power Station were demolished by a series of controlled explosions.


The first cooling tower came down rapidly followed almost immediately by the other two.





Finally the chimney came down.


All that remains now is a solitary wind turbine and two masts.

As I mentioned in my earlier post about Richborough Power Station the plan is to convert the site into a 300 acre "green energy park".

Personally I think covering the countryside with solar panels and/or wind turbines will be as big an eye sore as the towers which have just come down....

3 comments:

  1. Hi Glen
    It looks like Kingsnorth will mean less distance to travel for you demolition pictures,as it has been given the chop.
    I installed radio sytems when it was built.
    I also went looking for the WW1 U-boat that was abandoned by the BeeNess Jetty.

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  2. Wow. Thank you for sharing, and greetings from Canada. My grandparents on my father's side were born in Kent.

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  3. ahaa one of the other people on the south side of the river ... I was the other side of the trees in the foreground of your pictures.

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