icwym but I think it's down to a misunderstanding by someone. Garbage-in-garbage-out.
It's like when I was younger, I thought it was odd that the American girl who recorded "The Locomotion" had the same name as a village near Bolton...
Here's a peculiar thing. If you google Yorkshire Power Stations a map comes up and on it Ferrybridge C is marked, but also, Ferrybridge Sea. If you track Ferrybridge Sea down it turns out to be an (alleged) gas company with a PO Box Number as the only details.
Bill
Bill, really, who cares? Any web search will turn up odd hits, hnaging conspiracy theories on the result is not sensible.
It's not showing on my Google:-)
However if you go to the viewing point I told you about just of junction
38 and drive half a mile down the road instead of viewing Emley Moor you can view Ferrybridge, Eggbrough and Drax.BTW I fitted the lone worker alarm at Ferrybridge power station - on my own.
What conspiracy theory? That is entirely in your mind. I just thought it was odd but wondered if there was an explanation, and thought someone on here might be able to furnish such. The reason I thought it was odd was because to start a business with a name that is phonetically the same as a power station seemed a strange thing to do. A joke perhaps? Why else would anyone do it? Ideas anyone?
Bill
Googling "power station" + Yorkshire shows it as being located on Horse Fair Ponty, where the sorting office is. I guess that's simply based on the listed postcode. It also comes up on those pseudo-trade-directory sites.
Next time you're up that way stop on the layby on the A628 just east of the Dunford Bridge turn off.
Oh the irony.
Bill
The place above: 450m ASL Emley Moor on the ground: 265m ASL Holme Moss on the ground: 530m ASL
Bill
Many years ago I used to go out with a girl from Dunford Bridge. She was
16 and I have no idea where this turn off is that you mentioned:-)
If you do a PAF lookup for the PO box's postcode, you get
POWERGEN UK PLC, P O Box 39 KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 8SQ
So that PO box address does seem to have been used by various owners of ferrybridge over the last 20 years, here are some links that are quite definitive, rather than secondary links that probably hoovered it up from elsewhere ...
I wanted distraction so...
I think the results you get are the result of systems/people replicating someone(s) mangling the details of the Multifuel 2 waste plant at Ferrybridge C.
That was fitted the day before it caught fire.
Is this a ghost station then? Brian
Little Eva? I don't geddit...
Bill
<https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5647682,-2.3805209,15.75z>
Ha! Like praying to the Prime Minister in the mid-fifties at school. "Harold be thy name..."
Bill
My mum (90) tells of the time she sung a song in the school choir, the chorus went "Joy scream of sea gulls". It was funny because her best friend happened to be called Joyce Cream.
Thanks to the Web I can see it's a Hebridean tune called "The Cockle Gatherer" I wonder if my mum remembers the title?
.."and there shall come a great profit, throughout the land"....
My mother claimed she was told off at school for wrongly saying grace: 'We thank thee Lord for this sour food'.
In the mid-1970s when Harold Wilson was vying with Ted Heath for PM (they alternated a couple of times!) this poem was circulated around school:
The British Prayer
Our father, which art in Downing Street, Harold be thy name. United Kingdom gone, We shall be done, On earth and probably in Heaven. Give us this day our dearer bread, And forgive us our devaluation, As we forgive them that speculate against us. Lead us not into the Common Market, But deliver us to the Unions, For this is the kingdom: No power, no Tory, For ever and ever, Wedgy Benn.
Relevant nowadays with Corbyn proposing "1970s-style" policies and the talk of "lead us not into the Common Market" being rather Brexit-orientated.
My recollection of that era, apart from "The pound in your pocket ..." was the suggestion that a statue of HW be placed beside that of Christopher Columbus on the basis that they had the same philosophy. "When he set out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was and - he did it all on borrowed money"
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