I grew up in Knottla and always marvelled at the power station towers and amazing fete of civil mechanical/electrical engineering. I was also lucky enough to work on the turbines on two separate outages back before it was privatised. When we were younger we would swim under the old A1 bride and sometimes feel the warm water that was discharged from the station. Great memories, can't wait to see the finished film.
Glad your memories are good ones. There is an invisible tragic element connected to the Ferrybridge cooling Towers that it seems no one ever mentions. When they began the demolition of Ferrybridge power station it was on the news and probably in the papers too. Mum would mention it whenever we talked, giving me updates. It did play on her mind each time it was in the news that they had brought another of the towers down. This is because they mentioned that there was a collapse of 3 of the cooling towers back in 1965 and that luckily there were no deaths resulting from the collapsing towers, but sadly at no point did they ever mention the deaths of any of the scaffolders brought in to help with the rebuilding of the towers. One of which was my mum's husband, my brother and I's dad. It was down right shameful what mum was put through after dad's death. The web of deceit & lies to hide the truth of who was to blame. Dad was the one pointing out the safety issues & was ignored. Time is money & safety would slow job down. He paid the price with his life.
I grew up in Knottla and always marvelled at the power station towers and amazing fete of civil mechanical/electrical engineering. I was also lucky enough to work on the turbines on two separate outages back before it was privatised. When we were younger we would swim under the old A1 bride and sometimes feel the warm water that was discharged from the station. Great memories, can't wait to see the finished film.
Glad your memories are good ones.
There is an invisible tragic element connected to the Ferrybridge cooling Towers that it seems no one ever mentions. When they began the demolition of Ferrybridge power station it was on the news and probably in the papers too. Mum would mention it whenever we talked, giving me updates. It did play on her mind each time it was in the news that they had brought another of the towers down. This is because they mentioned that there was a collapse of 3 of the cooling towers back in 1965 and that luckily there were no deaths resulting from the collapsing towers, but sadly at no point did they ever mention the deaths of any of the scaffolders brought in to help with the rebuilding of the towers. One of which was my mum's husband, my brother and I's dad.
It was down right shameful what mum was put through after dad's death. The web of deceit & lies to hide the truth of who was to blame. Dad was the one pointing out the safety issues & was ignored. Time is money & safety would slow job down. He paid the price with his life.