Coventry chimney set to blow…

Implosion will mark the end for Courtaulds factory chimney.

A towering chimney stack and water tower on a former manufacturing site in Coventry are to be imploded this weekend.

The 50 metre (164 ft) chimney stack and 30 metre (98 ft) water tower are on the site of the former Courtaulds factory in Little Heath but will be demolished on Sunday.

At its height, in the 1950s and 1960s, Little Heath Works employed about 5,000 staff producing acetate yarns.

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