>Ben newsam wrote:

>> 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

>
>That's another manmade feature going. I shall be pleased but like you will
>miss the distance marker. The other one I'm thinking about is the OLD
>incinerator at the sewage works just to the east of the chimbleys.