Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

A fair collection of cooling towers, in 2006 anyway, and a power station with a nice bit of alliteration in the name.

The Cheshire contingent should know what it's called.....



From geograph by Alan Godfrey
Under this Creative Commons licence

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Regards Neil

[white exec]

That's Fiddler's Ferry! As a student, I spent a very memorable winter's evening with a young woman in the pub of the same name, way back in 1967, gazing out across the river at the distant lights. Six foot, ash-blonde, legs that went on for ever . . . will never forget you, Miss Crookes

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Malaga contingent gets the right answer. The white building is that very pub Chris.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Sizewell B



From geograph by Dave Crocker
Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Just a couple more before we say au revoir to Power generation plant day..

From Dungeness ( geograph...oak house archive....Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)



Ticks the lighthouse box as well.

And from the same grid square Dungeness station on the R.H. And D railway



By Ron Hann, Creative Commons as above

regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well after a successful Power Generation Plant Day, its back to normal again. Anyone who missed it can, as is the norm these days, recreate the excitement, by visiting the FCF Turn back Time Machine

Very much enjoyed the contribitions, thanks to all who joined in!

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

Very much enjoyed the contribitions, thanks to all who joined in!

Seconded It is the stuff that makes this forum such a wonderful place to be Keep it coming all!

[harryp]

How on earth does the pic of Dungeness look so light and friendly? My memories are of a very grey forbidding character to the place; but then probably only seen it up close on cloudy low sky days. Even on sunny days I seem to recall Dungeness always looked grim .

[myglaren]

Dungeness sounds as though it would look pretty grim.

[CitroJim]

How on earth does the pic of Dungeness look so light and friendly?

It's the radiation Amazing what a few isotopes can do to transform a place...

[Hell Razor5543]

Can anybody tell me which comedy film was, in part, shot in the area around Dungeness?

[myglaren]

Not a comedy James.

The Dungeness Nuclear Power Station was used in an episode of Doctor Who. The Kent Film Office state that the station was featured in the 1971 episode, The Claws of Axons starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. The Kent Film Office writes on their site that the power station doubled as a “Nuton power complex”. Cole Moreton a Doctor Who fan wrote in The Telegraph that the Dungeness beach was also used in the episode and featured in a key scene where an alien craft landed.

Or perhaps it was.

I have a feeling that part of "A For Andromeda" was filmed there to but may be imagining that.

[myglaren]

These too:

All Or Nothing (2002)

Ginger and Rosa (2012)

I Want You (1998)

The Garden (1990)

The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)

[NewcastleFalcon]

The wiki article on Dungeness has info on some of its film/music video/album covers credits but don't think a comedy is on the list. Elsewhere in the article there is a reference to these things at Denge built in the 1930's, but instantly obsolete when radar came along


Oast House Archive
Creative Commons Licence]

Regards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

The film I was thinking of was "Carry On Follow that Camel", filmed (for the desert scenes) at Camber Sands.