Video - Lafarge Cement Works controlled demolition, Wiltshire - September 2016

Not sure what happened to the first video I put up, but here it is again.

In February 2009, Lafarge announced manufacturing at the plant, which opened in 1962, would be suspended as a result of increasingly difficult cost and market conditions.

For over half a century the chimney has towered above Wiltshire, being easly identified from miles away, until this morning, when a controlled demolition removed this iconic landmark leaving almost no trace of its existence.
I couldn't see the flag a member of this site attached to the top of the chimney, guessing they took it down beforehand.

Thanks for looking.

 

[AltCoyne]

Looks like I was in the same field as you!

 

[Minor]

Wouldn't surprise me. We were in the first field on the left after the houses on Newtown road.