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Should be a sight
Going to be between three and five in the morning.
Be ready!!!
No way ! It remains a standing joke that I always look for them when coming through the cutting on the M40
Planning on going up onto the Ridgeway to watch it!
I drive to Milton Park every day. No way I'm going to do it on a weekend. I'll watch it on YouTube at my leisure on Sunday!
No way?! They represent a part of my childhood - first as a young child being fascinated with their size and shap and second as a teenager in the CCF flying a chipmunk round the skies above them.
They gone now then?
I still can't believe the rationale for blowing them up at night... Only explanation I've heard is fear of the spectacle distracting drivers on the a34 and causing crashes
Would be a good view from Wittenham Clumps
Didn't hear anything in the night, can't see from here as a massive hill is in the way.
Bugger, they are my "only 1 hour from home" marker when driving back from up north. How am I meant to know now?
Will be weird dropping down the hill to Childrey and not seeing the anymore
I thought only some were going, not all.
Scheduled to go between 04:00 and 04:30 Sunday. Audible alarms to sound 15 & 10 minutes prior, with a gunshot 1 minute before to scare roosting birds. Yes, really. Number of road closures will be in place. Also, I am told a section of the 34 will be shut. Northmoor Trust are charging for car parking at the Clumps, likely to be busy, and on-road parking is impossible up there.
I've suggested to the Mrs up on the Ridgeway by East Ilsley. I'll be in bed. Take your bike & have an early morning ride after the action. Nice loop from the car park there, along the Ridgeway dropping down towards Cholsey then returning via lanes & bridle ways thru Astons, Blewbury, Hagbourne, railway line towards Upton, over to Harwell , under the 34 and then climb back up to the Ridgeway.
I think it's three of the six that are going.
It makes sense they are doing this "at night" quite a few roads nearby and the railway too.
Jambalaya has it. I'm working with the demolition company on another job and we were discussing it earlier this week. Tomorrow will be the first "batch" with the others to follow at a later date/s.
Wow really?
Grew up in wantage so those towers were a familiar sight
I'll definatelty be watching that on YouTube
the towers feature on our 'club' jerseys on the grounds we're local and wherever we ride we see them, I think a few of us will be out on the Clumps or nearby, not me though as I'm working this weekend.
Crashtestmonkey, are you a Didcot Phoenix CC rider?
Found a spot with a good view, here with my lad. worryingly close.
Still here, I just had a little kip.
6 mins....
Down now. Various videos posted around the net already.
Watched it from a corn field in Harwell with a couple of hundred other folk. Mrs Morini was quite upset. Always been part of her life growing up nearby.
Haha guys cool you went to watch, photos / video links ? It must be weird they're not there
I'll upload my vid when I get home, got as close as we could. Nice little boom indeed, it parted my hair !
Beeb vid here, not very straight collapse, makes one wonder if it was controlled demolition at all...
Nice little boom indeed, parted my hair !
Unfortunately i missed seeing the demolition live, as i was "On the road" back from the Alps. I grew up in the shadow of Didcot living in the village of Harwell for 12 years. Personally, i liked the towers, although others were obviously less complimentary about them, but i think everyone came to undestand them as a Landmark of the area. As a kid, the occasional blanket of "power station snow" from the cooling towers was fun too. But, time and tide stand for no man, and the march of progress is inevitable really, so i guess they had to go!
We went to watch. I'll miss them - glad there are still three to guide me home.
We were there. Cycled the few miles from home on empty trails, got to the Clumps at 3am and it had quite the atmosphere as clearly lots of people had been there all night (with beer & more!). Glad we got to see it as we have the cooling towers on our club kit 🙂
Beeb vid here, not very straight collapse, makes one wonder if it was controlled demolition at all...
Are you the guy that's the 9/11 conspiracy theorist or is that someone else?
I'm sure Toys could have done better! 😉
Almost impossible to make structures of that shape drop straight down, I would have thought. They did drop into the main footprint area, though, as far as could be seen on the video, so a pretty neat job.
Was up at the top by Harwell, but not till 7.45am, loads and loads of people camping/sleeping/partying up there. Didn't have much excuse other than not wanting to bother getting up so early.