182 Comments for Coal Brook Breaker Power Station

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Likely the stator section of a turbine
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Most likely old generator windings
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A bouquet of smoke stacks.
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Those smokestacks blow me away. Can't beat the laws of gravity & physics. Those stacks are coming down soon.
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GOOD ONE!! Looks like the tower is slowly disolving
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sorry for the late comment, but I just now have found this wonderful website. Started exploring on side one. Agree to nuel this would be perfect on my desktop but it's too small :-(

greetings from germany
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MOTTS COME DOWN TO FLORIDA
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No doubt either a motor or generator (more than likely a generator, as this was a power station). Whoever stripped it no doubt got a fortune in copper for their efforts.
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Love it! The lighting is beautiful!
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She's a real dynamo and a beauty to boot.

"People could withstand a hundred chest X-Rays a week - and they should have them."
- Dr. J. Frank Parnell,
'repo man'
c. 1984, alex cox

Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
06 December, 2008
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Magnificent. Wouldn't any right thinking man want to spend the rest of his life in this beautiful Basilica of Power?

Wouldn't any right thinking woman wish to spend it there with him?

Elegant vistas inside and out - name one condo community or gated subdivision that can offer that.

Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
06 December, 2008
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Thank you for the pictures.
My grandfather worked at this site and I
was unable to visit it before it was torn down.
Now I have an idea of what it was like.
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gorgeous shot!
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The Concrete structure inside the hole is called a "Turbine Pedestal" sort of like a table that supports the Turbines and Generators. Even though the plant was shut down the Turbo Generators and other equipment is still in good condition and sold to other plants or factories and often the only way to remove them from the biulding is to make a hole through the wall.
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Almost like a steam-punk MRI machine...