Westwood Power Station cooling towers demolition: January 15th1989

Demolition of Westwood Power station Cooling towers. It was sooooooooooooooo long ago now!! Thanks to UeyUeyAzteca for supplying the date of demolition! I like the bit about how "the council wanted the site cleared for a multi million pound business and leisure park". So what is there now then, TWENTY years later? .....jack all! ha ha! I rode my bike over to where they were last year but found it hard to find the site but of you look on Google Earth, you can still see the bases of where the towers stood. Each one was (I think) 315 feet tall. We used to go inside them in the late 80's and I was always fascinated by how massive they were! Only the day before the demolition, I rode my bike over there and was actually stood next to the colling towers whilst the legs were filled with explosive and wired up! You wouldn't hear of that these days would you?! :-O

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• wigan
• westwood
• power
• station
• cooling
• towers
• demolition
• explosives
• 1980's
• 80's
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• 1989
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• tonight

[pretorium]

Its like everything else in Wigan...I lived there in the 70's & when I came back 30 years later I couldn't even drive round the soddin' place. The Town Centre - ruined. The westwood towers....gone....the Baths....demolished. Wigan Council are tossers and have ruined Wigan

[systemanic]

My uncle was the manager of Westwood Power Station, I think around 87 he transferred to the power station in Manchester. I was watching this come down at the top of Bryn with the view of Wigan in the distance. Pity we never took any photos or had a video camera at the time, not until exactly a year later that is. I wonder if anyone has any home video of this particular event; the only one i'v seen is this local news footage.

[Gijojolee]

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[Gijojolee]

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[Gijojolee]

I saw it was 100% liked so i had to fix that

[StRoRo]

Wigan council is determined to try and ruin the wonderful nature site which has grown from the demolition of the power station. First was the failure of Westwood industrial estate, which now consists of 2 roads 2 roundabouts, giro bank which was already there, Council building they dumped there its show its being used and a perfect haven for druggies and bunrt out cars. Then came the dual carrage way which got canceled but not after wasting millions on filling in a flash. WelldunWigan Council

[JONNYCONCR373]

slowly but surely erasing our heritage

[TheJedditytv]

so shit

[mudhutters]

i remember goin watchin that i was about 9 years old

[UeyUeyAzteca]

According to the wiganworld website the date of the demolition of the cooling towers at Westwood was January 15th 1989.