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Well, I thought it seemed an appropriate topic in light of certain recent events on here... 😉
So, yeah, power stations, control centres, that sort of thing. Structures that control aspects of the environment, so dams and locks I'll allow.
Tidal Basin Pumping Station, Royal Docks London:
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Thames Flood Barrier:
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And of course:
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Any excuse...lol
It's a structure that certainly controls an aspect of the environment 😉
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loch tummel hydro station
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/john_parker/5252706064/ ]Power Station Loch Tummel[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/john_parker/ ]John Parker Pix[/url], on Flickr
YAY!! Welcome back Fred!!!
Just for you, something from your spiritual home. Speke airport Control Tower and terminal. Art Deco lovliness:
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and the Mersy tunnel air vents
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Not appropriate Sharki!!!
Singletrack Towers...
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No?
Ok...8 mins to edit then...THINKS!
Sheffield Moor Street Sub Station:
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Better ^? 😉
It's still innapropriate Sharki! 😆
Vinneyh: Sublime... 😉
Fiddlers Ferry power station
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That's an awful lot of steam and hot air being produced
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ben cruachan, inside which a 1km long tunnel
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leads to the 440MW hydro electric power station
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Sorry the pics are a bit crap, very little on t'internet, but you can read all about it [url=www.scottishpower.com/uploads/CruachanPowerStation.pdf]here[/url]
Powerstation IM - Belgium
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😥
Meh...
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Farnborough Air Traffic Control Centre. Looks quite phallic...
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Power [b][i]without[/i][/b] control - Chernobyl
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Drax @ Selby N. Yorks.
I was thinking about posting the Thams Barrier pic for the gateways and entrances thread cos it's kind of the river gateway to London...
Ah well.
Power and control:
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Shed loads of power to control very tiny things, the Large Hadron Collider.
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Transmission mast at Emley Moor.
The original mast, a 1266ft steel structure fell over in 1969 due to high winds and the weight of ice on its guy cables. Bet that made a din!
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Agecroft.
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Now gone, making the area a greener and cleaner place.
Hoover Dam.
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Monolithic but impressive in size. Boeing's plant at Everett, Washington state.
Kariba Dam
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Not the biggest or most impressive but responsible for Lake Kariba a pretty special place I miss.
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St. Denis II Powerstation - Paris
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And I'll see your phallic and raise you a yonic 😆
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Doesn't qualify, Starbelly, cos it's not a power or control centre. Sorry, but I don't make the rules oh actually I do. 😐
Crossness Pumping Station:
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Abbey Mills Pumping Station:
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Tat Modern (formerly Southwark Power Station):
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Power you say? Well, since most of my youth was spent watching this being built, I'd best introduce people to Sizewell B.
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This okay Elf'?
No it's not, Derek, it's not. You cooduv posted something nice like this Sayano-Shushenskoe Hydroelectric power station, but instead you've gone and bin silly which isn't nice and it spoils it for everyone else who is behaving themselves I think you should go and stand in the corner and stay there until you can learn how to be nice. 😐
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Power and Control, The Kremlin;
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Here's an American missile silo.
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Too much power and control...
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Again, inappropriate. 😐
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I prefer Naval Architechture for sheer Power and Control. 🙂
Danny79, you from Zambia then?
Caen Hill Lock Gates, Kennet and Avon Canal:
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Huge massive pipes, the steps on the right give and idea of size 😮
From this.
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And on the other side of the world, a night time lock transit on the 3 Gorges Dam. Much control of keeping the lock doors closed at the right time!
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No Baldysquirt, I lived in Zimbabwe from age 12 to 17 came back to the UK for A'levels and Uni. Still got friends out there, but we left well before farm seizures started.
That's not the Kremlin!
It's St Basil's cathedral (on Red Square just next to the Kremlin).
Turn to your right and you'll see the Kremlin..
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Pitstone windmill
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Cenarth watermill
Low tech now but back in the day they utterly changed the way of life forever.
Power and Control, The Kremlin;
...but that's not the Kremlin...
footflaps - I blame google images...
I do enjoy these threads. Here are some control rooms...
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[url= http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/79623/details/hunterston+nuclear+generating+station+a+power+station/ ]Hunterston 'A'[/url]
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[url= http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/93041/details/stonebyres+hydro+electric+power+station/ ]Stonebyres Hydro Station[/url]
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[url= http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/48119/details/kincardine+on+forth+bridge/ ]Kincardine on Forth Bridge[/url]
(Okay, so the last one controls a bridge rather than a power station but I'm putting it in on the strength of it looking damn cool and having a microphone to bark instructions at errant road/river users)
Well it's a church, so symbolic of Power and Control, I spose...
As is this place:
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Ceausescu's Palace of the Republic
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