Former Wind Turbine at Mount Todden

Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: Unknown

I took this picture of a wind turbine on our first visit to Scilly back in the mid 1990s. On our next visit it wasn't there any more and I was told it had been blown down. I can't find any other pictures of it on the web. From a print and the colours have aged a bit. Also the exact date is uncertain. Thanks to Roger Banfield and Kate Hale via the Isles of Scilly Museum for help in locating the site and providing extra information, including confirmation of the storm damage story as follows. "Having put this out to the informed locals, it would appear that it did indeed blow down." "The wind turbine eventually came apart, and was then dismantled. As there was a large electricity transformer next to it, the Council then installed the desalination plant in the same area (Mount Todden), in the early 1990's. The desalination plant needed a 90Kw supply for the twin units installed."

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