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Friday, December 06, 2019
So farewell then Ironbridge power station cooling towers
Travelling to Shropshire by road, if you leave the M54 at one junction you join a road that dips sharply so that the hills rise above you.
Just as you are trying to remember some quotations from Housman, you round a bend and see the cooling towers of Ironbridge power station.
Not any more you don't: they were demolished today.
As a 20th-century boy, I still have a regard for industry on the heroic scale. I also admire the way red pigment was added to the concrete so the towers matched the local soil
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