Up at 2.30 this morning to see three of the cooling towers at Didcot Power Station blown up, actually it was more implosion than explosion as they just descended quietly onto themselves. We had warm dry weather with just a hint of a breeze as dawn came.
We were told that the towers would be demolished between 3.00 - 5.00am and when, at 2.45 we drove to the site we had chosen, the roads were as busy as a mid-morning with cars, cyclists and pedestrians. It was 5.00am before the cooling towers did go, meanwhile we spent two interesting hours chattering to the 100s of people using the same vantage point as us to see the sight.
In all thousands of people took to high points for miles around to see the spectacle. After the event traffic cleared incredibly clearly and by 5.30 roads were back to usually early Sunday morning quietness.