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Chesterfield power station supplied electricity to the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire from 1901 to 1958. The electricity generating station was owned and operated by Chesterfield Corporation prior to the nationalisation of the British electricity industry in 1948. It was redeveloped as demand for electricity grew and old plant was replaced, and had a generating capacity of 6.9 MW in the 1920s. The station closed on 1 April 1958.
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Artwork by William Walton & Topaz.
Had this on my hardrive for some time and just stumbled upon it so i thought i would share it with you.
"Industrial Sunrise" Facts
Fiddlers Ferry is one of the biggest power stations in the north of England.
The station has a total power output of 1,961 MW.
The coal plant stores up to 25 trainloads of coal every day.
The coal-fired station holds a stockpile of 1.75 million tonnes.
Fiddlers Ferry can process up to 3,000 tonnes of coal per hour.
The station burns 16,000 tonnes of coal a day.
The station uses 195 million litres of water from the Mersey River.
Each cooling tower can cool up to 8,400 litres of water per second.
In total, the station's cooling towers can cool up to 67,200 litres of water per second.
These Images are part of my weekly Vlog on Youtube about the Mangahao Power Scheme click on the link above to access the Video
Not been out much other than dog walks but managed to get out this morning for a pretty spectacular sunrise.
Hopefully find time to have a look at them in the next few days.
This portrait version of my evening at Ferrybridge a few days before the demolition has been hanging around for a while now so for lack of anything new to post this will have to do.
From Wikipedia :- The Dungeness nuclear power stations are a pair of non-operational nuclear power stations located on the Dungeness headland in the south of Kent, England.
Dungeness A is a legacy Magnox power station consisting of two 250 MWe reactors which were connected to the National Grid in 1965 and reached its end of life in 2006.
Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) power station consisting of two 520 MWe reactors, which began operation in 1983 and 1985. They were the first in a series of AGR reactors to be constructed across the UK. In March 2009, unexpected problems discovered during a maintenance shutdown on unit B21 resulted in the reactor remaining offline for nearly 18 months. In 2015 the plant received upgrades and was given a second ten-year life extension to 2028. In September 2018, as both units were shut down for a scheduled maintenance outage, EDF encountered "significant and ongoing technical challenges" which ultimately led to the announcement of its closure on 7 June 2021.
After another visit, i thought i would show you the full picture of my latest framed image, i can see me visiting this again and get some nice sunset colours, as i say its something you could quite easily walk past not realising there is a photograph to be had.
The old loading jetties for Greenwich Power Station. That has now been converted to gas and, apart from supplying the grid, provides an emergency backup to power the London Underground in case of any disruption.
The long (15 second) exposure on this pic taken at Sawley Marina has made the colours stronger and emphasised the framing too
Looking down Sawley Cut towards Ratcliffe on Soar power station on wet walk from Trent Lock to Sawley Marina. No colour in the landscape today.
The power station for an old gunpowder factory.
Of the 100 buildings existing while there was gunpowder production between 1882 and 1978, the old power station, in poor shape, but still standing.
The workforce in the gunpowder factory consisted of between 16 and 50 workers, the production entailed a great risk of explosion and a total of 17 people were killed in accidents at the factory.
The production during winter was rather cold since it was no source of heating in the factory due to the risk of explosion.
The biggest accident occurred on May 7, 1919, when 7 people died.
The last accident on the 30th of December 1976 claimed 2 lives.
There’s a barrel left for display at the sight which contained explosives, which is totally torn when it exploded in one of the accidents.
The barrel was made of solid steel, with a thickness of 10mm, so the blast was powerful.
It can also be seen by the leftovers of the powerhouse, which was ruined by the explosives.
Camera: Linhof Master Tech Classics
Lens: Caltar II-N 180mm f5.6 at f22 - 1sek
Film: Fomapan 400 at 200
Negative scan, R09 1/40 9.30min