The
work of rebuilding the three cooling towers, which came down in gales last
November at Ferrybridge ‘C’ Power Station, has begun. The 375ft high
towers, perhaps the largest of their kind in the world at the time they
were built, weighed 8,000 tons and cost £290,000 each. They were to help
supply electricity to a wide area of the West Riding and the stations
compliment of towers - all of the same dimensions - is eight.
Workmen
have started to put additional piling in the foundations of one of the
destroyed towers. The Resident Site Engineer, Mr. G.D. Leydon, told ‘The
Express’ ;
"Work
is proceeding on the thickening of the five remaining towers, but the
weather is not helping this work."
