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Bill
Bryson wrote about them in his comic travelogue, Notes From A Small
Island, and they featured in an episode of Morse.
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Catherine Petts (Real player needed)
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For
some, the smoking towers of Didcot Power Station are an inspirational
sight, dominating the landscape north of the ancient Ridgeway.
They've
even been nicknamed The Cathedral of the Vale (a good place for
a baptism of fire, perhaps).
But
now they've been named as the third most-hated blot on the UK landscape
by the readers of the upmarket magazine, Country Life.
Wind
farms and Birmingham's New Street Station came first and second
(though it's some years since New Street was surrounded by fields).
Artist
Charles Burns has even depicted the power station in pastels. "Though
nobody can doubt that it is a blot on the landscape," he says,
"it does have a certain majesty about it."
Eric
Hobson, the power station's regulation manager, told 大象传媒 Oxford
that many local people love the towers, and said they'd probably
have a preservation order slapped on them if anyone really suggested
demolition.
He
said: "I'm clearly disappointed. I think it's a splendid-looking
building, particularly the cooling towers."
And
they even earned a bold defence from Catherine Petts, of the Council
for the Preservation of Rural England.
Click
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to listen to them both being interviewed by 大象传媒 Radio Oxford's Jonathan
Hancock (Real player needed: see box above for download details).
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