Wednesday 8 November 2017

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station





What a fabulous place Fiddlers Ferry is. We really enjoyed this trip, it was fascinating finding out how the coal powered plant runs, we had a tour round the place and visited some control rooms that looked like something out of a Star Trek movie.

Gemma the tour guide and tutor for the day was fabulous, she had a great rapport with both the kids and the parents.

It will be great to visit with some other power plants such as the nuclear power plant and Hydro power plant so that we can compare them.

It was fabulous to visit Fiddlers Ferry as it wont be there for much longer and will be closing in the next few years, approximate date of closure is 2025 but it may close sooner so it was a bit of a treat to be able to go here and experience a coal powered power plant.

The kids learnt how the plant works and how electricity is produced by the coal powered plant, they learnt how coal was produced and the different qualities of coal, how people lived before electricity and how they live now and what has changed, the magnets and inventors and significant scientists and discoveries of electricity.

The packed so much in it is hard to remember everything.






Here are the twins pictures they drew of their day at Fiddlers Ferry:-






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