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Fig. 6.35 The lighthouse “Grebeni” offshore Dubrovnik, Croatia, now a touristic residence.
Credit to Dennis Jarvis.
windmill into the Hill Fort which was used for grinding corn, and later snuff (i.e.,
tobacco). In 1777, the mill machinery was destroyed by a gale that turned the sails
too fast and caused a fire. In 1828, the site was rented to William West, an artist,
who used the mill as an art studio. On the top floor, West installed a telescope which
he later replaced with a camera obscura, which is still working. The camera obscura
consists of a convex lens and sloping mirror, and is still working today: it projects onto
a white surface inside a darkened room providing a true image of the outside land-
scape. By 1837, the observatory was completed. At the end of the First World War
the Observatory was used to hold celebrations and then as a shelter for the people
of Clifton during WWII. In the late 1900s, it was leased to the Bristol Corporation
for relief of the poor before it was eventually sold to private owners. The building went
for sale (BBC, 2013) and in February 2015 was bought by a local entrepreneur. The
renovated Clifton Observatory is now open for private hire from 2018 hosting such
events as weddings or conferences.
6.6.4 Industrial chimneys
All NPPs and practically all nuclear research centers house chimneys (often called
stacks) for the discharge of ventilation air and contaminated gases (Fig. 1.7). Expe-
rience on their potential reuse, though, can be mainly drawn from the nonnuclear sec-
tor. A considerable number of old chimneys, which formed part of the first industrial
installations in many countries, and dates back to the first half of the 1800s and even
earlier, remain to this day. Some of which are surprisingly high (hundreds m) and of
meaningful architectural design.