Last Saturday ( 12th April 2008 ) the Cooling Towers Collectibles Co. Stall opened for business in Sheffield’s city centre Millennium Galleries. Its aim to commemorate and mark the Tinsley Cooling Towers as Sheffield’s own unique pair of landmarks, by producing products to celebrate them before their expected passing, when they will be demolished for good and lost forever.
At the agreed 9am opening time there was already a queue of about 30 people waiting to purchase their piece of Cooling Tower memorabilia. People came from all over the UK to wait in line. Within an hour the queue was making its way down the corridor towards the Winter Gardens. By lunch the stall had sold all of it’s limited stock – which included: 100 plates, 250 tea cups, 25 screen prints, 50 pairs of oak models, 50 paper make your own cooling tower kits, 50 t-shirts, 80 cotton bags, 20 jigsaws, and many a postcard. The 2 week predicted stall life was cut down to just over 4 hours.
My thanks go to the two Toms from Go (www.dontgo.co.uk) who organised the event and gave me the opportunity to distribute the ‘Make your own Cooling Tower’ kit and the small oak pairs of cooling towers. Hopefully they have gone to good homes (not ebay – as some of the plates have!!!) that will cherish them and hold onto them for some time to come.
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Robin // April 20, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I queued for an hour and 20mins for a pair of the oak towers and they ran out about 10 people in front of me! I was gutted!
But, I did get one of the screen prints, and a teatowel, but that hasn’t arrived yet