Places

Do you remember Blackburn Meadows? What do you think of the demolition of Tinsley Towers in August 2008?

harold rogers
it was my playground during the school summer holidays in the mid 1950s to mid 1960s.It/s what i would call end of my childhood era

nigel
great, another land mark gone.

Jamie Wroe
"not historically or culturally significant"Are you sure about that, or is it that old cookie that history is only Greeks and Romans and not what we the people want it to be. Not culturally significant? Again, I, as a man of the North, always saw them as a symbol of home. Unmissable.

Bill Drabble
My Dad worked at Blackburn Meadows power station in the days of the CEGB. The place had an active social club. I learnt to swim via it and I can remember standing under the towers waiting to get a coach to go on a sea fishing trip with my Dad. to a 10 year old they looked likr something out of science fiction.How can they not have been part of the city's industrial heritage? Surely they were just a few generations on from Abbeydale Hamlet and Kelham Island.

kerry ward
It's not about them being a "pitiful eyesore". They were very symbolic, a reminder to what used to be a thriving, industrial city, sadly outlawed by thatcher and her cronies. I for one will miss them. They weren't just a friendly site welcoming me home, but something much deeper than that. It is such a shame that big organisations like EON, fail to see the towers' significance to so many people. These towers were a historical landmark, not only a gateway home, but a gateway to the past. Perhaps there should be something there that would pay homage to sheffield's dying industry? What do others think?

Andy Gibson
I hear talk of how they were "part of Sheffield's heritage", a "landmark" and "should have been preserved". They were nothing more than an eyesore, and not historically or culturally significant. If you want an industrial landmark look at the Forth Bridge, Ironbridge Gorge, or Cardington Zeppelin Hangars. If these pitiful structures are the best that Sheffield can offer for an 'industrial landmark' then I pity them and I pity the city.

Bradley Graham
Saw this in a BBC news email. Looked like a very interesting place, for its time.

dez
get them down

Rob Bamforth
It's a shame, they're a part of Sheffields history, and a local landmark, it won't be the same without them

Matthew Squires
I will be very sad

Jon Rowbotham
It is sad to see the Towers go. I am 26 and i will always remember travelling south on the M1 coming back from The North that when i saw the Towers, i was home back in Sheffield. They will be missed. Proper landmarks.But if they have to go, then they have to go.Goodbye Towers.

Tony Neil Morris
Gone but for the time being not forgotten, Cooling Towers are iconic and a focal point of landscape scenes of industrial history. But Tinsley Towers not forgotten.

Yvonne Swift
My mother Irene Allen nee Fothergill was just a girl when the cooling towers were officially opened.She often spoke about how she and another Tinsley youngster were picked out from the watching crowds and asked to perform the opening ceremony.

joanne
they should keep em we knew we were home when we saw the towers

robert paul smith
i had many happy years working with ex-blackburn meadows staff at avenue coking plant power station,some of there stories i will not forget,thanks nev/harry h/ray/harry f,happy days.