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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 74
Sign: Capricorn

Country: UK
Signup Date: 9/28/2006
Thursday, October 12, 2006 
The further away you are, the bigger they get.

I can see the towers from my back garden. I live in those terraces at Greystones, near the Somerfields on Eccy Road. I have to climb on top of the picnic table and there they are, just before the hill cuts off the view of the valley. Between the chimney pots of the houses, I can just see their two tops.

You can see them from everywhere in Sheffield. From the covered reservoir in front of Tapton. From Wincobank. From the roof of Park Hill. From Heavygate Road where the 52 finishes. From Ringinglow Road in the Peak District. THE PEAK DISTRICT.

From the top of St James tower in town, they loom over the Don Valley like mountains.

We want people to be able to see them from further away, too. From all over the world. Whenever you think of the word SHEFFIELD, we want those towers to appear in people..s heads, in their imaginations, massive.

That..s how big they are. That..s what they could mean if they were reused as art. A new symbol.
Megan

 
I realised today I can see them from the staff room at work. They remind me of the two huge cooling towers in Cape Town that can be seen pretty much everywhere too as its a flat city.
 
Posted by Megan on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:54 AM
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Hypotype

 

I think, if we're successful in the campaign to save them it'll actually do us good because we won't take them so much for granted.

I never want them to fall!


 
Posted by Hypotype on Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 5:43 PM
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