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THEY'RE already famous across South Yorkshire...
Now Sheffield's doomed Tinsley cooling towers are being publicised around the globe - thanks to local schoolchildren.
A set of four postcards featuring the cooling towers as they are viewed and experienced by the Tinsley community has been produced - including one by pupils of Tinsley Junior School.
The schoolkids have now sent their cards far and wide, including to Pakistan and Sheffield's twin cities of Anshan in China, Bochum in Germany, Donetsk in the Ukraine and Esteli in Nicaragua.
The cards have also been posted to Kitwe in Zambia, Kawasaki in Japan, Pittsburgh in the USA and Kotli in Kashmir.
Photographer, writer and digital artist Ali White asked residents what the towers meant to them and what place they have in their lives.
Their comments, both positive and negative, have been combined with old and new photographs and drawings by Tinsley Junior School pupils to create the postcards.
Two thousand sets have been produced and the Tinsley Forum will deliver one set to each of the 1,400 households in the area, as part of the project, funded by Arts Council England.
Karen Durham, regional partnerships officer with the Arts Council England, Yorkshire, said: "The Arts Council believes arts and culture have a major part to play in creating vibrant places with a strong sense of identity where people live, work and play."
Joanne Roney, Sheffield Council executive director of neighbourhoods and community care, added: "Love them or hate them the Tinsley Towers are part of the history of the area, and it is right that we capture the range of feelings people have about them."
Power company E.ON, which owns the towers, plans to demolish them later this year because it says they are structurally unsafe.
But the plans have been opposed by campaigners, who say the towers are a part of South Yorkshire's identity and should be preserved.
A debate has been raging over what should replace the towers after E.ON offered 500,000 to pay for a replacement, providing the money is spent locally and the project has an energy theme.
Click on the green icon above to see our slideshow of the youngsters and their cooling towers postcards.
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