{"id":6317,"date":"2021-01-15T20:51:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2021-01-16T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T16:34:51","slug":"rugeley-power-station-scoping-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6317","title":{"rendered":"Rugeley Power Station – Scoping Exercise – updated 16th January"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rugeley Power Station is gradually being demolished. This Sunday one of the chimneys is to be taken down. This is something I want to capture for the ‘Transforming the Trent Valley’ project run by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust (I work for them as a volunteer). One of the things needed for the project is to provide -‘before and after’ views. So today I went for a ‘scoping’ exercise to see the landscape before the big day. Unfortunately it was a day of low cloud. Here is a view of the site – you can see what I mean:<\/p>\n

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The Canal and River Trust has an archive of old photos include a few of the canal with the power station in the background. I wanted to capture a similar view before the chimney came down to create a #vTourThruTime. With today’s weather this is the best I could do:<\/p>\n

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I am going to try and get another photo before Sunday…<\/p>\n

Update 16th January 2021: Here is the latest version where we can see the tops of the cooling towers and the chimney that’s coming down:<\/p>\n

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Rugeley Power Station is gradually being demolished. This Sunday one of the chimneys is to be taken down. This is something I want to capture for the ‘Transforming the Trent Valley’ project run by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust (I work for them as a volunteer). One of the things needed for the project is to provide … Continue reading “Rugeley Power Station – Scoping Exercise – updated 16th January”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,92,3,94,112],"tags":[116,115,113],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-after","category-canal","category-photography","category-staffordshire","category-vtourthrutime","tag-powerstation","tag-rugeley","tag-vtourthrutime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}