Agecroft Power Station Cooling Towers and Chimney Stacks demolition

In this video we witness the demolition of Agecroft Power Station's four Cooling Towers and two Chimney Stacks on May 8, 1994, from a vantage point on Butterstile Ln, Prestwich, overlooking North Manchester Jewish Cemetery
Agecroft Power Stations refers to a series of three now demolished coal-fired power stations, which were situated between the eastern bank of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal and the western bank of the River Irwell at Agecroft, Pendlebury, near Manchester, North West England. The stations utilised Metropolitan Vickers turbine generators, operated between 1925 and 1993, and were demolished in 1994. HM Prison Forest Bank has since been built on the site
Agecroft Hall, an ancient manor house once occupied a site nearby, between Lumns Lane to the west and the Manchester to Bolton railway line and disused Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal to the east. It was dismantled by a new owner and shipped to Richmond, Virginia in the USA. The first power station on the site, Agecroft A Power Station, was formally opened by Alderman G. Billington, the Mayor of Salford, on Wednesday 23 September 1925. It was operated by the Salford Corporation Electricity Department. After nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948 the station was owned and operated by the British Electricity Authority (1948-1955), then the Central Electricity Authority (1955-1957), finally by the Central Electricity Generating Board (1958-1990). The station was then extended in 1950 with the construction of a B station and in the 1960s a C station. Agecroft B and C power stations were officially opened in 1962 and the event was commemorated with a plaque
The stations used cooling water from the River Irwell and the B and C stations were cooled by four large natural draft cooling towers situated close to the banks of the Irwell. Three steam locomotives were built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1948 to shunt coal wagons at the A station and later the B and C stations. However, with the nationalisation of the UK's electric supply industry, the locomotives became almost entirely redundant as a conveyor belt was constructed to carry coal directly across Agecroft Road (A6044) and into the station from Agecroft Colliery. The colliery continued to supply the stations until its closure in March 1991. Despite this however, locomotives were still used to shunt waggons of coal to and from the colliery. The surplus of locomotives were sold in 1980s. After being retired in 1980, Agecroft No.1 was saved from scrapping by being bought by a private owner. It was purchased by the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester in a dismantled state in 2008, where it underwent a 3-year restoration. Agecroft No.2 was bought by the Ribble Steam Railway and sent to Southport for restorations in December 1982. Agecroft No.3 is undergoing full restoration at the Whitwell & Reepham railway station in Norfolk
Agecroft Colliery was closed in March 1991 and the closure of the power station was announced in November 1992. The station closed in March 1993, and demolition commenced later that year. The cooling towers and two main stacks were demolished on 8 May 1994. Their demolition was delayed because a pair of rare peregrine falcons had nested on the site. HM Prison Forest Bank has since been built on the station's site. It houses category B male offenders and was opened in January 2000. Sometime in December 2019 or January 2020, Agecroft A Substation was stripped of its Art Deco control panels. The reason is unknown, perhaps this represents a step towards demolition

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Is this the one in Prestwich clough?

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Is tower near the grave btw is baby is crying because is demolition tower is loud