One of the five cooling towers of the disused Willington power station, Derbyshire, England, UK.
"In the 1950s, two coal-fired power stations were built on a site off Twyford Road, between Willington and Findern. The stations were privatised and sold off to National Power in the early 1990s and eventually closed in the mid 1990s. Although most of the stations were demolished at the turn of the millennium, the five imposing cooling towers continue to dominate the skyline of the local area. The site is earmarked for a large residential development, pending the results of a public inquiry. The construction plans have been met with local opposition, perhaps due to the site's proximity to the River Trent's flood plain. In the mid 1990s, a pair of peregrine falcons nested in one of the site's huge cooling towers. Unlike many bird of prey breeding sites, this was widely publicised because of its impregnable location." Wikipedia entry
Size: 2340px × 3664px
Location: Findern, Derbyshire, UK
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: abandoned, brick, chimneys, cooling, derbyshire, electricity, england, findern, generation, power, single, stack, stacks, station, towers, uk, vertical, willington
