Ironbridge Gorge As the reasons for the passe power station’s cooling towers being there fade from memory,they become more enigmatic, more magicalThe cooling towers of Buildwas power station rise behind trees beside the river Severn. They stand like monstrous mushrooms, or eerily silent. I remember when they were built,I had friends who worked on their construction and heard tales of men who fell to their deaths from them.
The towers rise hundreds of feet from the Ironbridge Gorge and were once cloud machines, drawing river water into the power station, and turning it to steam by burning coal,driving turbines, forming clouds to drift away and condensing into rain inside the towers to return to the river, and so I understood. Related: Rooks among the rocks Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com