Mundane pictures of the North

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Continuing my series on things you can see from hills around Bradford. I've done some of these before but this is from a better camera than my phone.

Drax power station.

 

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Eggborough power station (I think, it might be Ferrybridge).

 

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Emley moor mast.

 

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Stoodley Pike.

 

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Lister Mill.

 

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Thornton viaduct.

 

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Some mundane Manchester

 

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Eggborough power station (I think, it might be Ferrybridge).
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That's Eggbororugh

 

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That's Eggbororugh

One chimney. Ferrybridge has two.

 

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Yeah... I think the picture you've labelled as Drax is actually Ferrybridge.

Drax has two groups of six cooling towers, one at each end, and only one and a half chimblies... A main one and a FGDS one about half the height.

 

[Shirl]

Yeah... I think the picture you've labelled as Drax is actually Ferrybridge.

Drax has two groups of six cooling towers, one at each end, and only one and a half chimblies... A main one and a FGDS one about half the height.

I did a guided tour of Drax about 5 years ago. My electricity consumption went down and has stayed down as a result. I couldn't believe the amount of imported coal, arriving from China, constantly all day every day except for christmas day, it takes to generate electricity
I think everyone should be made to visit a power station.

 

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I did a guided tour of Drax about 5 years ago. My electricity consumption went down and has stayed down as a result. I couldn't believe the amount of imported coal, arriving from China, constantly all day every day except for christmas day, it takes to generate electricity
I think everyone should be made to visit a power station.

I've been to a few power stations in my time - nuclear, hydro and coal - but I still waste power. Got the power-hungry halogen spotlights on right now. May as well speed up the inevitable demise of humanity and be done with it.

 

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But my favourite power station visit was the hydro plant in the mountain in Scotland - can't recall the name at the moment, but it was very exciting when I went when I was a young lad.

 

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imported coal, arriving from China

There used to be trains, all day every day from Kellingley Pit taking coal to Drax. I know Drax has converted to bio-mass, Ferrybridge is closing down and I've heard that Eggborough is converting to gas.

 

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the hydro plant in the mountain in Scotland

I might have visited the same one as a child on a family holiday. I love big machinery. I've done the Sellafield (or Calder Hall as it was called at the time) tour a few times as well. Highly recommended.

 

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There used to be trains, all day every day from Kellingley Pit taking coal to Drax. I know Drax has converted to bio-mass, Ferrybridge is closing down and I've heard that Eggborough is converting to gas.

I always like to think that Eggborough is fuelled by eggs.

 

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I might have visited the same one as a child on a family holiday. I love big machinery. I've done the Sellafield (or Calder Hall as it was called at the time) tour a few times as well. Highly recommended.

One of the joys of growing up in an industrial area, with a father who worked there, meant the endless visits to these places. Mines, power stations, chemical plants, blast furnaces. Superb.

Industrial sites are fascinating.

 

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Dumfries - Camera Obscura at the museum that used to be a windmill until 1836

 

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Gatehouse of Fleet Gala Week

 

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Stranraer

 

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Gatehouse of Fleet Gala Week

Weird, we were there yesterday wondering what the bunting was for! Did you go in the best charity shop ever?

 

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Industrial sites are fascinating.

Some are. When I was at school we had a guided tour of Saltend chemicals plant. As our chemistry teacher put it, 'here are some pipes, and here are some ... er, pipes, and here are some very big pipes, and for a change here are some pipes.'

 

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Beer garden of the Lion and Key.



Mural brightening up a patch of waste ground, near Blackfriargate.




C4Di building going up quickly.



The Sugar Mill gearing up for Saturday night.

 

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Weird, we were there yesterday wondering what the bunting was for! Did you go in the best charity shop ever?

Nope - we did the ice cream milkshakes at the Post Office and then to the crazy bookshop in the Mill on the Fleet - Mrs A has a bit of a charity shop addiction and, after buying some Meakin china the day before, was barred from looking

 

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A little bit of glasson dock in your life

 

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More from glasson dock

 

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Old Bell Chapel, Thornton.

 

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Knott End