http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: industrial architecture - Recent Posts en Thu, 21 May 2026 09:49:32 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-346897 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 23:51:00 +0000 chdot 346897@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/cockenzie-power-station-could-get-a-green-makeover-and-become-scotlands-own-eden-project-3140783" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/cockenzie-power-station-could-get-a-green-makeover-and-become-scotlands-own-eden-project-3140783</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-195560 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:37:02 +0000 recombodna 195560@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>chimneys come down on sept 26th </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-195344 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:02:35 +0000 Cyclingmollie 195344@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's only a frame and some side panels now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-195335 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:18:02 +0000 amir 195335@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought it was going to be a gas powered station. Obviously wrong! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-195314 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:46:04 +0000 kaputnik 195314@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>a “Tate Modern for Scotland”, complete with performance space, shops and even <u>a swimming pool</u></em></p> <p>So not really the Tate Modern at all then. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-195307 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:33:39 +0000 chdot 195307@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>It’s been suggested the ambitious proposals could see the disused power station transformed into a “Tate Modern for Scotland”, complete with performance space, shops and even a swimming pool.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/community-bid-to-buy-cockenzie-passes-first-hurdle-1-3854010" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/community-bid-to-buy-cockenzie-passes-first-hurdle-1-3854010</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-174645 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:37:10 +0000 chdot 174645@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/cockenzie-chimneys-to-be-demolished-in-2015-1-3624894" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/cockenzie-chimneys-to-be-demolished-in-2015-1-3624894</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-151226 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:56:58 +0000 kaputnik 151226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/scotland-blog/2014/apr/30/scotland-firthofforth-coal#start-of-comments" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/scotland-blog/2014/apr/30/scotland-firthofforth-coal#start-of-comments</a></p> <p><strong>Scotland's secret tunnel under the Forth, 50 years old and forgotten</strong><br /> <em>While two of Scotland's best known landmarks, the two bridges over the Forth, will be celebrated this year there is a third crossing which is a distant memory: a tunnel in the rock cut by the coal mining industry</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-137112 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:02:55 +0000 chdot 137112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/cockenzie-power-station-demolition-gets-under-way-1-3234716" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/cockenzie-power-station-demolition-gets-under-way-1-3234716</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-119647 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:19:59 +0000 wee folding bike 119647@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Paper says there will be a wide exclusion zone round Inverkip. Should have gone to Cumbrae earlier in the week. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-119641 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:10:54 +0000 Arellcat 119641@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stack is scheduled for demolition tonight at 22.00.</p> <p>The last train to Inverkip is the 1950 from GLC. That doesn't really matter because the last train back is the 2054. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-117757 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:04:50 +0000 kaputnik 117757@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23254894" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23254894</a></p> <p>The view from the top of Inverkip stack.</p> <p>TO be brought down on 28th July. Will be quite a sight! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-104687 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:33:02 +0000 chdot 104687@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/cockenzie-power-station-set-for-westminster-debate-1-2840996" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/latest-news/cockenzie-power-station-set-for-westminster-debate-1-2840996</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103166 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:45:29 +0000 wee folding bike 103166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't know if Inverkip still has a chimney. The station was being demolished when we were down there in October. I'll be on Cumbrae in June so I'll check it then. </p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverkip_power_station" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverkip_power_station</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103164 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:37:14 +0000 kaputnik 103164@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wfb yes, but a wreck with chimbleys! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103155 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:39:20 +0000 wee folding bike 103155@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>kaputnik, </p> <p>Battersea power station has been a wreck for about 25 years. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103119 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:52:38 +0000 PS 103119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Boo! Why not just keep the big chimneys and hide the small ones on a different bit of the building, thereby avoiding demolition costs? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103117 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:49:38 +0000 kaputnik 103117@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@PS <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flue-gas_stack">It looks, unsurprisingly, more complicated than just that</a> - the combustion gases from natural gas will be of a different density and temperature than that of coal, so will require a different height and guage of stack. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103110 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:23:27 +0000 PS 103110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So you might knock the big chimneys down because they'll cost more to maintain in the long run than it will cost to replace them with crappy wee things now? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103108 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:16:11 +0000 kaputnik 103108@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Anyone know?<br /> </em></p> <p>Boilers on a power station are forced draught, so it can't be for that. I have vague recollections from first year urban geography course at uni that it's to do with what you are ejecting from the stack. There's sulphur and nitrogen oxides from coal, and not from gas, so perhaps because you're only ejecting CO2 and water from natural gas, you don't need the tall stack. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103098 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:56:46 +0000 chdot 103098@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=three+harbours+light+up+cockenzie&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch">Pix</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.3harbours.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.3harbours.co.uk</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103091 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:50:26 +0000 PS 103091@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Totally agree, K. These massive industrial buildings are fantastic structures. I'm a big fan of Torness as well. In the pages on the second link, there's a link to footage of Portobello power station, which looks like a belter of a brick behemoth as well.</p> <p>I'm not clear on why you would need to change the chimneys to convert it to gas. Anyone know? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103089 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:47:47 +0000 chdot 103089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/5476704836/"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5215/5476704836_c4b1013871.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/5476704836/">Cockenzie Power Station from bird hide!</a> </p> <p>Yes I like it from a distance too. </p> <p>Not sure that Scotland likes its industrial history much. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103085 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:17:14 +0000 kaputnik 103085@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We've already knocked down it's near twin (Kincardine) and contemporaneous sites at Barony in Ayrshire and last year in Methil. Inverkip is being dismantled just now (whose chimneys were the tallest free-standings structures in Scotland.)</p> <p>This leaves Cockenzie as perhaps the last change to preserve something of this era. It's far more handsome than Longannet, which suffers from four chimneys combined into a single stack which, despite being taller than those of Cockenzie, appears to be proportionately short and dumpy.</p> <p>Emasculating it would be dreadful - imagine knocking down the stack of Bankside (Tate Modern now) or Battersea power stations in London. You might as well complete the job and flatten thr whole thing if that's your approach.</p> <p>We're much too quick to flatten our modernist and industrial architecture, like the original Shrubhill powerhouse and like what National Grid want to do at the Granton gasholder. And it's usually to enable them to create a quick buck and throw up some nasty housing development. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103076 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:47:48 +0000 PS 103076@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.frasermacdonald.com/why-i-love-cockenzie-power-station/">Some good photos here too, as well as images of how it will be emasculated...</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9632#post-103071 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:34:33 +0000 PS 103071@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thought this might be of interest to a number of CCE-ers:<br /> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/scotland-blog/2013/mar/06/scotland-architecture-cockenzie">Lang may yer lums reek</a> </p>