15. Main Chimney
The main chimney is 259 metres high and 44,000 tonnes of reinforced concrete were used to make it. It consists of three elliptical flues each of which serves two boilers. The flues are re-shaped to a circular section of 9.1 metres at the point where they emerge from the top of the chimney to extend another 9.1 metres.
Pauline says...
Our chimney used to be the highest industrial chimney in the world and was in the Guinness Book of Records, but now it is only the tallest in the country. It is 101 metres higher than the Blackpool Tower, 15 metres taller than Canary Wharf, but 41 metres shorter than the Eiffel Tower.
