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We were on a leisure day trip in England and did not take a single photo of industrial sites. This illness is short-termed and not considered harmful. Instead, we watched castles and gardens, the Kent landscape and Canterbury monuments, experiencing a "suitable level of enjoyment" as the folks of English Heritage would put it. They use this term on an information sign describing why a certain room of a Heritage castle is lit to a specific level. Sometimes, you simply have to love the English for their way of expressing things.

(If you are in the region though to see disused industrial facilities, though, do not miss Richborough Power Station. The huge cooling towers of which will remind you of John Davies' The British Landscape, and as the boiler houses are gone, hardly anything is obstructing your view on them. When seen on a clear day from a distant southeasterly place like Walmer shore, Deal, Worth or Sandwich, the cooler's elegant shape dominates the landscape in such a beautiful manner you wouldn't guess this station has been powered with dirt, producing fumes that are said to have corroded car paintwork. Wikipedia has a positivistic entry on the employed Orimulsion fuel. I liked the mentioned distant view best, having the cooling towers and chimney nonoverlapping and the sea as a backdrop, and found the available vantage points to worsen the closer I got.)