Former Power Station Workers Watch Turbine Hall's Demolition | Scrap Kings

[@susanwahl6322]

Why continually show the towers if they’re not going to be blown up.

[@jimmysavile69]

They will be, very soon

[@archiemartin9949]

They were destroyed today

[@soundseeker63]

I remember going past on the train in years gone by, so it will be strange not just for the towns people, but for passangers on the West Coast Mainline, when the station is no longer there. A huge landmark of The Midlands, suddenly just a memory. The same can be said for a lot of these old stations that have bitten the dust in recent years. Were they a blot on the landscape? Perhaps. But, either way, I think deep down we loved them and they will be missed by many. Now, up with those wind turbines!

[@skylined5534]

Same thoughts here. I still miss seeing the cooling towers of Meaford Power Station B, near to Barlaston in Staffordshire. And of course the pit head and lift gear frames for Florence Colliery and Hem Heath Colliery. The thing that dominates in the Hem Heath Colliery's former site is a bloody great horrible Screwfix distribution centre, lovely 😑

[@barrywiles9831]

what an anti climax i was expecting the whole site to go

[@zachbladen]

They did say 'turbine hall' multiple times in the video

[@crs2385]

Taking the piss

[@Un-Grand-Central]

I hate you

[@archiemartin9949]

The towers were destroyed today

[@matthewmellor7269]

@@archiemartin9949 i was there

[@NiallMS1]

Government making the same mistake as they did with the railways in the Sixties: should've mothballed in case needed again!

[@ogr7771]

Being from Southern California, I have a question...........does the sun ever shine in England?

[@nonoaidnono]

Yes, summer can have quite the heatwave actually, sometimes weeks with no rain, although spring/ autumn (fall) are chaotic weather of cold and wind mixed with random sun

[@OffGridInvestor]

Not much. The HEATWAVE they refer to is 28C.... like 84F....

[@tortinwall]

Of course. It shines all the time. Above the clouds.

[@charkieee7866]

Yes in the summer

[@charliemillar3040]

Sometimes

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

And then they wonder why they have a power shortage.

[@OffGridInvestor]

EXACTLY. As the right people try to hide the fact that wind turbines are putting out like 84% less power than ORIGINALLY claimed. They're good in high wind areas like where I am or areas with year round wind. But they don't move in breezes and are a total waste of time in some areas.

[@wardrobe189]

they are demolishing decomissioned power stations for a reason. they dont receive power shortage's from decomissioned power stations. They are demolishing this power station to build houses, commercial buildings, and a school. Plus, there's hardly any more power stations running in the world.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

​@@wardrobe189Germany put their old coal burning power stations into a mothballed strategic reserve, and it is now keeping their lights on. Meanwhlle the UK is dependent on imported natural gas.

[@patrickcannell2258]

Exactly. Thanks to the green brigade. This is happening everywhere.

[@idkkid2829]

I live in this town

[@babydave2662]

I'm sorry.

[@jackshears9366]

That’s nothing to brag about🤣🤣🤣

[@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736]

Maybe you can answer this. Why are the British commodes so bloody small? It's like you're sitting on an English tea cup.

[@charliemillar3040]

Burton

[@mattrich7998]

Fascinating to watch but......the weather, the scenery and the cramped houses make me glad i live in Australia

[@OffGridInvestor]

Yeah. Overcast as hell. And most of the oldies look worn out. I never seen anyone like that woman outside of a nursing home with 6 months to live.

[@wardrobe189]

never seen something so real dawg, lived in rugeley for 5 years, was a hell hole, living in la rn

[@superadio1]

Im suprided this power plants so labour intensiv

[@surreyscouse2873]

That when it was built. 1 It wouldn't be computer controlled 2 It was run by the government, hence labour-intensive When I contracted there in the 90's, it was private run with probably a lot less than 200 company employees It was looking tired by then, after 10 years of privatisation

[@bonitemon]

Super power👍

[@shravanav993]

5:00 Jason Statham is here

[@ianrobinson6434]

I saw ot with my dad

[@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial]

They should have kept it as a national historical site.

[@OffGridInvestor]

Tyey should keep ONE. They've flattened TONS, particularly the oil burning ones. There was an oil burner that was MAINLY in a hole from the start to hide its size. Should've kept that.

[@hypergolic8468]

They looked at listing one of them (Ironbridge or Thorpe Marsh - even Calder Hall was discussed briefly), but the liability of such a structure was beyond anything the government could sustain long term - potentially hundreds of years onwards. Ultimately the problem was the time it was built, the C.E.G.B was in a renewal programme that was so aggressive, that stations were reckoned to have a 30 year lifespan, so everything, buildings to equipment was specified to that. That's why brick facings went out. The development of Generation capability was faster than the brickies could build the buildings! To keep a turbine hall / boiler house up for years beyond its design life span was just impossible, and as for cooling towers, not a chance. Think of the wind loading on such a large structure on a stormy night. It's very, very, sad as the last big Coal Fired units, such as Drax, or oil: Littlebrook D were the end of a totally British built Power station. It was then end of what this country could build. For future generations not to see that we could do it all is heartbreaking.

[@tortinwall]

Job done?? Job half done, if that.

[@connorelder5798]

RIP to that powerplant

[@connorelder5798]

Should have blown it all at once .

[@SICKIMPULSE1]

They can’t because there is a housing estate and Amazon is right next to it mate , I live on the estate next to it

[@user-lc5vh8is3w]

Blackout britain soon.

[@ethanjubb5495]

so sad

[@stratpluslover8391]

The worst looking power station I've seen the chimney is off sided and looks like a block of flats

[@iamhull723]

Sad to see history go but it want be history if it did not 😥🏗🏠🏠🏠🏠

[@AndehX]

6:42 thank mate later.

[@ianrobinson6434]

Ian Robinson is my dad he has been there for 30 years he is the one with some white hair and bald😊

[@Chemical_Logic]

dark series

[@aaronatherton7431]

We can't build anything like that today how can it be outdated? oh well, welcome to texas..cold...cold...texas.

[@OffGridInvestor]

It's likely just inefficient coal power station. England is running headlong into renewables so yet to experience what Texas recently experienced. As well as south Australia.

[@aaronatherton7431]

@@OffGridInvestor How did they get from full power, with a higher population and colder temperatures in the eighties than losing power and being colder than the mercy of a druid priest???!! No one expects ones own citizens to betray them for a fairy tale...who would let the elders and babies freeze? The eco greeks to decrease the surplus population...they reduce a person to a pence and then say capitalists are cruel.

[@chadwolfeschledgelsteinhau9697]

Repeat

[@michaelhicks708]

I am glad this blot on the landscape is going .

[@sophieravenscroft1796]

Dude do u even live in Rugeley the power station was the way everyone knew they were nearly home and it’s been there for more than 50 years

[@bonusnudges]

They’ll probably put up loads of wind turbines

[@sophieravenscroft1796]

@@bonusnudges no there building a retail park and houses and a primary school

[@cameronrichardson3108]

? That blot on the landscape kept u from sitting in the dark so less moaning, also kept ur tv and phones and iPads etc and by the sounds of u ur electric car charged too.

[@davidsivills3599]

Nice to see all these dirty power stations coming down.

[@gregshearer423]

Aye don’t mind all the ones China are building

[@adrianpoole9201]

You won't say that when the lights go out.

[@davidsivills3599]

@@adrianpoole9201 Burning fossil fuels is fuelling global warming,the future must be clean energy.

[@OffGridInvestor]

You're saying that UNTIL you realize that English wind turbines are producing 84% less than expected. And you've yet to have power cuts like texas and south Australia due to excessive wind turbine reliance. Personally grid power supplies dying doesn't worry me one bit.

[@jimmysavile69]

@@davidsivills3599 Good they're building a school there, we can send you there for an English lesson

[@stephenparsons178]

You can't stop progress gay Sera Sera like the cupple sed we saw it go up and we saw it go down emagen the air in a decade or to the lot of you will be so much Heather without the polushon and again fresh clean air to live with not charkole smog to live with sad but for the better of mankind I'd like to think

[@anubis6864]

Maybe they should build a school on the site so people can be taught to spell properly!

[@teagoodsir1734]

@@anubis6864 they have just had government funding for a school to be built there 😂

[@johnriggs4929]

That's got to be the finest example yet, of what modern education does to kids. And this kid will probably believe that silly windmills will provide sufficient power and free us all from 'polushun'... God help us for the future.

[@teagoodsir1734]

@@johnriggs4929 mmm yes let’s add millions of electric cars to a power grid that’s not set up for it fantastic

[@johnriggs4929]

@@teagoodsir1734 that isn't even the half of it... to change every car (for those who drive them) for electric - even just in the UK - will not be possible, due to insufficient resources of the necessary elements in the entire planet. Either they are too dumb to realise this - or they do know, and it's part of the plan. Even if if were possible - what would those who rely on a car for work, but live in (e.g.) terrace houses do to charge them - string a 240v extension from the bedroom window?