I STILL can't believe that even Sheffield City Council could have allowed the sick event that took place on Sunday, the destruction of the Tinsley Cooling Towers.
No other city had these huge historic structures and now we haven't either. Short-sighted pandering to corporate power has robbed future generations. Sheffield's cooling towers may have been industrial, but they had still been carefully crafted with different architectural designs on the top and had reinvented themselves as massive works of art as well as preserving history. My son and I were lucky, we enjoyed seeing them at an otherwise boring Meadowhall shopping experience. My grandchilren will have to just look at pictures. We shouldn't need to think up a £500,000 monument to wasting money, trying to emulate the irreplaceable icon of the cooling towers that were a genuine part of Sheffield. If Sheffield needed an artwork, it shouldn't have just blown the best one up. Spend the money on something useful.
Dawn Biram, Sheffield S17
WE think that they had no right to demolish the Tinsley Towers. They are a trademark of our land. All we can say is we hope they are happy with what they have done. They have made the wrong decision and they should have taken a vote. All the people we have asked have said they didn't want the towers to be destroyed. They have stood there for 70 years. All we want to know is why they blew the Tinsley cooling towers up.
Zoe Furniss and Lucy Richards (both 11 years old)
SUNDAY, August 24 was a sad day for Sheffield; our cooling towers reluctantly fell leaving only a shopping mall and a Finnish stainless company to mark what was formerly a great center of British industry. Two beautiful, iconic structures raised to the ground. Two huge shapes that put Sheffield on the map for every single one of the millions of motorists who brave the M1 each year, now demolished.
Any attempt to replace those imposing towers with another 'symbol of Sheffield' will be little more than an inadequate structure which should bare the names of all those fools involved with the travesty.
Carl W, Sharrow
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