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    YOUR CRUISING COMMUNITY

    Apr 29, 2021 4 minutes

    Send your sailing gossip, diary dates, cruising news and club or owners’ association updates to Laura Hodgetts laura.hodgetts@futurenet.com

    Farewell to Solent landmark

    The iconic structure of Fawley Power Station, at the entrance to Southampton Water, is being demolished for redevelopment.

    The 650ft chimney has been a distinctive navigational aid since 1970. So here, Dave Jones, Fawley engineering manager from 1998 to 2006, shares a little more about it:

    The site near Calshot was part of a 13-strong network of 2,000MW power stations, developed some 50 years ago by the national utility company, Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), across England and Wales. Only

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