A series of minutely prepared explosions brought the four remaining cooling towers at North Yorkshire’s Eggborough power station down over the weekend – a visually spectacular demolition captured from multiple angles in video shot by drones and ground cameras.
The blasts took place on Sunday morning, and almost instantaneously reduced the surviving quartet of 300-foot towers at the decommissioned coal-fired plant to piles of rubble. Those followed the demolition of the power station’s four other cylindric stacks on August 1, as part of the area’s mixed-use regeneration project. It’s rare for the passing of a major contributor to global warming like coal-burning plants to be missed. However, reports say hundreds of local people gathered to watch what had once been a veritable monument in Yorkshire’s industrial landscape be transformed into – quite literally – a dust heap in history.
Probably the best (and first) collection of drone and ground…
