UK At Home

The towers first helped supply energy to the National Grid in 1965 but a year later, during gales gusting up to 85 mph, three of them collapsed.
Barry Lewis

Grim Up North?
These 115-meter-high cooling towers at Ferrybridge 'C' Power Station — the largest of their kind in Europe — loom over nearby homes in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

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