Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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See the cooling towers are back in the news as they want to demolish them as part of conversion of the site to an eco power generating site - shame to see the landmarks go..
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i bet there will be as many people glad to see the back of them as those sorry to see them go.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Great image again Paul.You might like to put up that other one too...remember the one with the water reflections. I think I used it on top slot on the frontpage one time recently. They certainly make for good images but as Howard says there...I wonder if they are popular with the locals who live near. But certainly a striking landmark.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have lived relatively close to them and passed them for 20+ years and they are a sign of nearly being home and visible for miles
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Guest 677- Registered: 8 Jul 2008
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Whilst I am the first person to want to preserve historical landmarks I have driven past this site on numerous occasions and can only see it as an eye sore. If they have plans to demolish these towers and use it as an eco power site I'm all for it. There are many more much more important historical sites that could use our assistance and passion.
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DT1- Location: Dover
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That is one great image!
Without being too geeky is that one exposure or HDR Paul?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The top one was just a lot of photoshop, but the bottom one is out of camera and just a couple of stitched images
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DT1- Location: Dover
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Good stuff!
God bless Photoshop. It changed my life.
DT1- Location: Dover
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Still great images!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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It's part of an ongoing campaign for the Ecological Garden: lads, knock 'em down!
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DT1- Location: Dover
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I like 'the milk bottles' as I used to call them as a kid.
My son pointed out, the other day, that they look more like diabolos.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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The Richborough site is Thanet's equivalent to the DTIZ. When I was living in Broadstairs a young girl won a competition to press the button to blow them up! She must be close to drawing her pension now
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I remember entering that competition too. Ironic that when the cooling towers went up there was such public opposition, now they might come down there are objections too.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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That was in 1180, I think we have had time to get used to it by now.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Vic might have sussed out in the mean time that coal lies directly below Western Docks, and might be figuring out how to lay a spanner in the port sale.
Apart from that, the future of energy definitely is in wind power. Public transport will also be running on electric engines before long, some time in the future.
I know for sure that one day there will be electro buses operating in Dover.
Brian Dixon
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alex,all though there is coal in the western dock area,the pit/mine would be to costly to keep dry as its subject to continaly flooding.
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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They shouldn't knock down the Richborough towers - they are iconic.
They should turn them into giant vases, with huge inflatable daffodils in the spring, and inflatable roses in the summer, etc.
Come on Turner Contemporary - someone do it!
I fear the faceless demolition fetishists will get their miserable way, however, as usual.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Andrew
Totally agree. They are an important part of our industrial past. Mabe they could be lit up with black n white still or moving archive images of the power workers.
They would be considered a landmark and not an eyesore.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
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