"You were only supposed to blow the bladdy doors off"

Part of our childhood & life landscape , you knew you were nearly home by land , car & plane when in site 👍💙

@SciurusVulgaris1979

7 ай бұрын

The towers were on my old school badge!

@kacperdolega8771

18 күн бұрын

​@@SciurusVulgaris1979Smart of your school then

Can you do parliament next please.

Poor Fiddlers Ferry.

Very sad day for me.. i grew up in Penketh and these were part of my everyday.. should have kept them as part of Penketh / Widnes. History gone in 10 seconds..

A much better view than the one I had from a misty/foggy Wigg Island 😢

@StephenJpresents

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I went down there myself today really early to get good spot and still didn't see it, its frustrating because normally you can't miss fiddlers ferry in Halton no matter where you are you can see them haha... at least we have one more chance with the others

This power station has been in my life since i was born my grandad done some work in there we would spend hours talking about it when he came to visit i am saddened by this i really am absolute waste just like the other person said history gone and it will be forgotten for ever the new kids will never even know it ever existed and lets all remember this power station was used in the winter in the end for use to help the power demand in the winter so to demolish it is a silly mastake rip fiddlers ferry i will never forget 😢

@rogerbeattie2263

8 ай бұрын

😢

@pauldurdin6163

7 ай бұрын

Grammar is not only the word for your grandpa’s wife, you know By the way, it was decommissioned completely in 2020, so it certainly wasn’t used this winter

Thank you very much for the upload the best one I have seen of the demolition so far.

Amazing job on the demolition and the video 💥💥👍 awesome to see despite the mist

The wrong four cooling towers Rodney

Impressive video, but sad to see a power station demolished.

@frederiquerijsdijk

8 ай бұрын

A coal power station? Not really sad..

@MervynPartin

8 ай бұрын

@@frederiquerijsdijkMuch of my career has been in power stations, coal and nuclear. There have been good times and bad times, but they have been a major part of my life, so yes, I am sad to see the demolition.

@frederiquerijsdijk

8 ай бұрын

@@MervynPartin I get that! But the future holds no place for these power stations, I feel..

@hairywelder5188

7 ай бұрын

Nuclear power is the way to go. How the hell will we manage with wind farms when we're all charging electric cars every night

@johnnybrace

7 ай бұрын

@@hairywelder5188 not to worry, electric power comes from a wall plug its 100% green lol

I work on The Railway and The number of Coal Trains that we used to send into there was just astronomical, most of it was imported into Liverpool docks. It certainly was a busy place and gave a lot of people employment.

@pauldurdin6163

7 ай бұрын

And early deaths

@stephensmith4480

7 ай бұрын

@@pauldurdin6163 What a little Ray of Sunshine you are.

@grahamallen1970

4 ай бұрын

​@@pauldurdin6163if that is so! You are complicit too as unless you live off grid and you are typing this comment on a none electric powered wooden PC on a you have used the power some where some how....who has blood on there hands now😮

Years to build, seconds to destroy.

End of an era. A landmark on the Cheshire skyline.

@cuttlefisch

4 ай бұрын

Visible from Oldham on a clear day, along with Runcorn Bridge.

I heard the boom in Sutton Weaver. Great shot.

@UKArchives-2024

8 ай бұрын

I heard it in Cronton. 9:35am

I live in Padgate Warrington i stayed in bed when i seen the weather. im glad i did now this view is much better ❤

@soulgirl62

8 ай бұрын

Padgate also here Peter.. . weather made me stay in bed too... me and my daughter was going to go up to Fox Covert but glad i didnt freeze to death now

Couldn't see a thing from Runcorn. Great job great video.👏👏👏👏👌👁

I would prefer to see the cooling towers repurposed for a nuclear power station, if the towers are sill sound.

@techheck3358

5 ай бұрын

the uk doesnt use cooling towers in its nuclear power station designs

It really is a sad moment. Could see them clearly in my flat in Denton Manchester When i lived there years ago. But times are changing and like it or not we do have to move with them.

The best by far 👍

Can you put them back up please

@thecoasterhub8848

8 ай бұрын

This made me laugh😅

My Dad worked there for 20 years.

@malcolmmuir2853

8 ай бұрын

I probably knew him, I worked there, with 2 other family members, from 1973 to 1978.

@joannemaguire2897

8 ай бұрын

He was at Bold Power Station those years hun….@@malcolmmuir2853

@StephenButlerOne

8 ай бұрын

​@@malcolmmuir2853my grandad was there from about 70-90 at best guess.

my late uncle helped build fiddlers ferry in the 1960s, also why is there no memorial to the people who where killed while building fiddlers ferry

Great work on the demolition but a disgusting waste of engineering and architectural history. It should have been preserved and kept for if we need it in an emergency. A shameful waste lack of respect for history and lack of foresight. The sky line won’t be the same again and no reminder of the once great coal areas of Lancashire which has been a significant part of the areas history and existence. Now I suppose someone can make a profit and knock up and other poorly build housing estate with another Tesco express and another Kebab shop. What a waste.

@vonflames9260

8 ай бұрын

Hey don’t forget the fuel station with integrated Greggs!

@StephenButlerOne

8 ай бұрын

It's a sad shame. But there are many stations like this one. So nothing engineering to note about it. It's more sentimental for us that grew up with it in the back drop.

@pauldurdin6163

7 ай бұрын

Or how about we just build something useful there instead? It was only built in the 1960s, hardly an historical monument.

So what’s left? There were 8 cooling towers and a large chimney but only 4 have been demolished, does that mean there are still 4?

@MikeCarter

8 ай бұрын

still 4 and a large chimney to go ....

@squatlemur77

8 ай бұрын

they started by deactivating the electrics near the first 4 towers, then went through with demolition, i can only assume they’re gonna run the same course with the other 4

Weird afterwards, there is hardly any rubble on the floor or did it all fall into a big hole below ? Im guessing thats what happened.

This is very short sigthed. When it is realise renewables (wind, solar) cannot supply the electricity we need, they will be rebuilding these cooling towers

@pauldurdin6163

7 ай бұрын

There is zero chance of a developed European country returning to burning coal to create electricity. Zero. Gas maybe, coal, no. Nobody would be prepared to mine it in this country, it’s a barbaric job which led to early and painful death. And the cost of importing massive ship fulls of rocks - fiscal and environmental - is simply mental You probably think steam engines are making a comeback

@onastick2411

7 ай бұрын

All so we can import gas and wood pellets from Russia and the US, we are being led by hysterical morons.

@AHJ99.

7 ай бұрын

Or you could just build hybrid adiabatic condensers, which are 10% the size of these towers and more effective at cooling, commonly used at CCGT stations.

@chandanpatary7264

6 ай бұрын

Bruh still a better alternative

@wertrocks123

6 ай бұрын

Times have changed, Peter. Coal is a relic of the past these days. It'll only ever be used again to rebuild after a complete societal collapse, which most likely won't happen.

Wow. We live in NE Cheshire and if we walk up the hill behind our house we can see FF on the horizon if the weather is clear. We knew it was coming down today but sadly the weather was too misty to see it. I'm not sure blowing down these old coal-powered plants is a good idea. Without them on standby we could find ourselves in trouble.

The eye sore is finally gone. Now we've only got the rest of Widnes and Runcorn to do.

Saw it haooen

Now what the fuck will you do? Burn peat?

Utter disgrace. Just like the foolish demolition of nearly all the beautiful brick chimneys loved by Lowrey, that used to cover the landscape. These cooling towers were iconic monuments - industrial art. We are living through very foolish and naive times.

An art project about the de-commissioning: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3mjppuuqNDVddI.html

Why the music and crappy effects just show it as is jeez

@user-ye1tu5bw4y

7 ай бұрын

It's from the outfit that ran the drone, it's basically an advert for what they do