There is great excitement in the city of Sheffield as preparations are
being made to blow up the two Tinsley cooling towers tonight "in the
early hours", which I am told means 3 am. They are doing it at night
because the towers are perilously close to Tinsley Viaduct, which
carries the M1 across the Don Valley. They will close the motorway for
several hours while it all happens.

It's sort of a shame, because although they are ugly, people have a
kind of fondness for them, you can see them from miles away, and as
you approach them on the motorway, you know that you're nearly home. I
hope they put up some huge monumental and iconic sculpture to replace
them.

I won't go and watch on the site, but I might pop out to somewhere
where I can see them (like just down the road from here), and if the
things are floodlit for the event, I should get a distant view.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7561179.stm

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/Final-countdown-for-Sheffield39s-twin.4417664...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KosuMw6yz6c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8scMjhTsJMg&feature=related