Creca Hall; Annan; Dumfries-shire; Scotland
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Date: 05 May 1949
Location: Creca Hall; Annan; Dumfries-shire; Scotland
Coordinates (lat, lon): 55.013313, -3.222665
Description: Oblique aerial photograph taken facing South West
One of the runways that composed RAF Annan, an airfield developed during the Second World War for the training of fighter pilots. In the late 1950s the UK Atomic Energy Authority commissioned and operated Chapelcross nuclear power station on the site. The first commercial nuclear power station in Scotland, during the Cold War its four Magnox reactors supplied weapons grade plutonium to the UK Government nuclear weapons programme and electricity for the National Grid. The site ceased generation in 2004 after generating more than 60TWh of electricity over 45 years of operation
Location: Creca Hall; Annan; Dumfries-shire; Scotland
Coordinates (lat, lon): 55.013313, -3.222665
Description: Oblique aerial photograph taken facing South West
One of the runways that composed RAF Annan, an airfield developed during the Second World War for the training of fighter pilots. In the late 1950s the UK Atomic Energy Authority commissioned and operated Chapelcross nuclear power station on the site. The first commercial nuclear power station in Scotland, during the Cold War its four Magnox reactors supplied weapons grade plutonium to the UK Government nuclear weapons programme and electricity for the National Grid. The site ceased generation in 2004 after generating more than 60TWh of electricity over 45 years of operation
Image type: Oblique