ANYONE CRUISING THE SOAR or the upper Trent can hardly miss those eight great cooling towers at Radcliffe.
But they are soon to disappear after 60 years, as they are being demolished this year.
In their place will be a low carbon energy generation and advanced manufacturing space, this coming with a data centre.
People complain
But people complain about their destruction arguing of the loss of the landmark that is symbolic of Britain’s industrial decline and tell that coal continues to be a major source of power in other countries.
The power station started generating in 1967 and became fully operational three years later. The coal was shipped by train direct to the power station, each 20 loads a day delivering an estimated 15,000 tons a load.
But this year those cooling towers and its chimney will be gone.