Ferrybridge Power Station

[tony111]

The chimney we were watching is still standing. We looked at the wrong one (from Allerton Bywater).

 

[Venod]

That was always one of the landmarks we looked out for on the family's trips up North to see my grandparents in Redcar. I had a sort of disgusted fascination with the glimpse we used to get from the M1 at the scum/foam packed river leading from the power station under the motorway.

The foam was not caused by the power station, it was chemicals coming down the river from Leeds, it was agitated by the weir at Castleford making it worse.

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