It's long been a cliched photograph, showing the ancient power source of North Leverton windmill, dominated by the "modern" power source of
the cooling towers of Cottam coal fired power station behind it.
However times change, and the switch back to renewable power such as wind turbines and solar has rendered the
power station which operated from 1968-2019 obsolete, so it and its cooling towers were redundant.
As of 14th August 2025 the cooling towers are no more,
having been demolished.
All 8 towers, each 114m high, were blown up simultaneously by contractors Brown & Mason, taking about 10 seconds to entirely collapse.
It's being claimed as the
record for greatest number of cooling towers demolished in one go.
Cottam power station cooling towers blown up