> 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