Karen Lee's Pictures of Branston

Gravel pit building

The building is still used, there is still open mining of Gravel on the other side of the A38 behind the trees.

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Branston

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Electric

Looking across the River Trent to the site that was once Drakelow Power Station just outside Walton-on-Trent. The last of the cooling Towers were demolished on September 6th 2006. Part of the site is now a Nature Reserve.

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Branston

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Cow Parsley

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Branston, Flora

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Coors Tower

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Branston

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Building Plot

This piece of land used to be open cast gravel pits. The pits were filled in with fly ash from the then nearby Drakelow powerstation in the late 1960's and 1970's. It is now home to meadow flowers and ground nesting birds with rough pasture for sheep, but not for much longer as planning permission has been given to build 650 houses on the site. It's at times like this I wish I was a millionaire, I'd buy it and keep it as it is!

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Branston

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Evening flight

Geese on their way over to Branston Water Park for their night roost.

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Branston

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Moon

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