2018 Treasure Hunt Challenge

#4 - Cooling Tower

Didcot B

The three towers of Didcot A were demolished, rather spectacularly, by explosives on Sunday 27 July 2014 at 05:01am.
Sadly, subsequent to that, a large section of the boiler house at Didcot A power station collapsed on 23 February 2016 while the building was being prepared for demolition. Four men were killed in the collapse.

Didcot A was the, seriously polluting, combined coal and oil power plant - I can recall driving past and seeing the HUGE mountains of coal stock.
Didcot B is a natural gas power plant, currently active but owners, RWE, announced on 9 January 2014 that modules 5 and 6 of Didcot B will cease generation by 31 December 2023 at the latest.

Anyway … no Litchi mission. :frowning:
I’d just got in the air when a cop stopped next to me. LUCKILY, he owns an MP. “A quick couple of photos, then bugger off!” were his words of advice to me. :fearful: :
Whilst I wasn’t in a NFZ, and there wasn’t any reason not to fly, I decided I’d not test my case at the cop-shop @ 5:20am this morning. :sunglasses:

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