COOLING TOWER COLLAPSE

ADDED 18 DECEMBER 2005

At the time we lived at 22 Marsh Croft, Brotherton, which was only a few hundred yards from the power station across the river and the Little Marsh. I was in Sixth Form at the King’s School at the time but was at home on that day. I remember hearing a noise almost like very heavy hailstone rattling against the windows.

Sometime after the noise subsided I noticed that the windows which faced towards the power station were very dusty and went out to have a look. It was then that I saw the jagged remains of what had been the towers. Of course, there was no day-time TV news and it took quite a while to learn that, miraculously, no-one had been killed. If I remember correctly, it happened during a tea break.

Edwin Pickett
18 December 2005

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