Grain power station chimney for the chop in September

I can ( or rather could see it clearly from my place in Burnham

I was all prepared with camera but annoyingly today the mist obscured it completely, but felt and heard the bang.
 
Vamoose said:
I can ( or rather could see it clearly from my place in Burnham

I was all prepared with camera but annoyingly today the mist obscured it completely, but felt and heard the bang.
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We walked up the hill in Cliff Reach, but as you say, couldn't see a thing in the haze.

Very loud though.

Looking at the vids ..... it seems rather sad, to me, to see all the work that was put into designing and building it being blasted away in a few seconds.

I never thought I'd be sentimental about a chimney........
 
oldgit said:
Its all OK the wind will from the south or south east.
The rubble and dust will be blowing towards Donald Trumps spiritual home
AKA...... Essex. :)
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Very little wind, so you in Kent are welcome to the dust, where it should be. The land of in'it.
 
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Drove 35miles to the club where there was a good view of the chimney. Had my camera with its long lens ready set in sport / burst mode, then just before 11.00 realised the battery was nearly flat. Just time to swap the battery? No, I missed the explosions, just got some snaps of a dust cloud. Didn't get a particular good view of it myself as I was frantically trying to sort the camera out.
 
We were anchored less than 100 yards from shore, magical sight as the chimney literally collapsed within itself. Now after the dust settled, missed Essex, there is just the stump. No more landmark. no more feeling you are nearly home. Ironically both my brother and father helped build both Grain and Kingsnorth power stations. Ah the passing of time.:)
 
Excellent day out.
Did invite a few friends,all of them retired but most of them were "far too busy" to bother coming along.:)
Strange old world.
 
Came down the Swin a couple of days ago. I missed the Grain chimney, but from Blacktail Spit you can easily see the container cranes and the triple short chimneys on Grain. So not all is lost to find the Medway.
 
What are those three chimneys for.? We came past last week and there was masses of what I thought was cooling water coming out of the site, which confused me as I thought that they demolished the Grain power station and stopped producing power there.
 
I rather thought it was a small gas-fired power station. There's another structure that looks very similar, behind Kingsnorth power station further upriver.
 
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