Didcot power station demolition

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The demolition of Didcot A Power Station viewed from Hagbourne Hill at 05:00 27/07/2014.

Three disused cooling towers at Didcot A Power Station have been demolished using more than 180kg of explosives.

The explosion, which flattened 36,000 tonnes of material, lasted less than a minute and was streamed live online by Demolition firm Coleman and Company.

Hundreds of people arrived at the site to watch the towers come down despite warnings of a huge dust cloud

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