When you first see Didcot Power station from the Thameside it is like a back-drop from the futuristic film Blade Runner. In the beautiful countryside, you suddenly see this modern version of an architect designed structure partly Stonehenge and partly Big Brother, watching out over the landscape.
The power station consists of one central tower about 600 ft in height and two areas containing three cooling towers each of about 100 ft in height.
There have been a number of environmental protests from the tree huggers over the years. Once a group of protesters from Greenpeace invaded the power station and chained themselves to a broken conveyor belt and at the same time another group climbed up the highest chimney, set up a climate camp and then daubed on the side of the tower “Blair’s legacy”.”I bet that they didn’t know how close they were to the truth” said Jimmy, who then went on to say that those “thick, misguided gits wouldn’t have known the Orwellian connection in that George Orwell’s real name was Eric Blair and that he was buried locally in All Saint's Churchyard in Sutton Courtenay” Phil just quipped “Fascinating” and then feigned sleep and snore mode.
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