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Viewing plan for power station chimney. Homes plans for old power station site. Power station closes after 41 years. New Forest District Council. New Forest National Park. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fawley Waterside footage shows the moment the giant chimney is brought down. A controlled blast took place shortly after GMT. Memories of an 'iconic landmark' power station Power station demolition continues Fawley power station site: New homes plan approved.

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Home planning Fawley Waterside planning application. One went in to check the cooling water tanks, only to be confronted by an armed SAS frogman. Mr Zarb's work also involved occasional trips to the top of the chimney in its internal lift. I'd crawl on my belly, and I could feel the wind on the soles of my shoes," he said. The futuristic look of the power station, in particular its circular "flying saucer" control room, made it an attractive location for TV and film producers.

In Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation was filmed on site, with one scene involving Rebecca Ferguson and Tom Cruise jumping from the turbine hall gantry crane to the basement ft 30m below.

The power station itself is also an unlikely subject for a stage play - writer David Lane is currently researching its history and compiling former employees' experiences for the The Forest Forge Theatre Company. He said: "What surprised me was how much passion and value people put on it.

It is hoped the play - with the working title, Stacked - will begin touring later in Among those contributing to the play was year-old Margaret Tillyer, who spent 40 years taking school trips, community groups and foreign dignitaries around the plant. Despite having no engineering background, in she answered an advert looking for "well-educated local ladies, married or unmarried" to work as tour guides.

In particular she said she wanted to inspire girls' interest in science and technology when she was leading school parties. I'd get them to touch the chimney so whenever they saw it in future, they could say 'I touched that'". Fawley's unique design features - in particular the triangular panels of marine-grade glass in the boiler house - meant Mrs Tillyer said she always considered it "a very attractive place".

Mrs Tillyer said she would be watching from her street as the chimney comes down on Sunday. The whole world situation has changed.

Fawley was part of the Central Electricity Generating Board's post-war plan for energy self-sufficiency when it was commissioned in , but its fortunes ebbed and flowed with political, economic and environmental trends. Built on reclaimed marshland on the edge of Southampton Water, it was set in a 20ft-deep trench, to lessen the visual impact. It was intended to use oil left over from processing at the neighbouring Esso refinery.

However the oil crisis of the s, when the international price rocketed, meant Fawley struggled to be economically viable in the long term.