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By: BATTERSEA POWER STATION - OPEN HOUSE - Charleyworks.com

BATTERSEA POWER STATION - OPEN HOUSE - Charleyworks.com — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:47:52 +0000

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By: The ‘Cathedral of Electrons’ in Battersea | batterseavictoria

The ‘Cathedral of Electrons’ in Battersea | batterseavictoria — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:20:24 +0000

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By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:11:22 +0000

Giles Gilbert Scott actually wanted square, brick chimneys, but had to live with circular concrete ones. He was appointed to the project late in the game, and the foundations were already in place, which were not designed to support heavy brick chimneys. The circular concrete chimneys had been planned by the engineer Pearse, and are much lighter than brick ones. Scott was unhappy with the circular chimneys but went on to design brick tower bases that are probably the most architecturally pleasing features of the building. Scott got to design Bankside (Tate Modern) from scratch later in the 1960s and went with a square brick chimney for this design.

By: The ‘Cathedral of Electrons’ in Battersea | Marc Bird

The ‘Cathedral of Electrons’ in Battersea | Marc Bird — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:17:42 +0000

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By: Brian Barnes

Brian Barnes — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:12:13 +0000

looks certain that we are fast approching the next sale of the Power Station as the debt masters at NAMA call in £280 million and shares in the company plummet to 1.15pence with no partner on the horizon. The building is slowly deteriorating but as all around is razed to the ground it becomes more prominent Look me up to read more

By: Sharon West

Sharon West — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:24:39 +0000

A friend urged me to read this page, great post, fanstatic read… keep up the cool work!

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:21:21 +0000

Hi – I love your website with the inclusion of the Youtube footage!
I am personally putting a book together on Battersea Power Station. It is a large format ‘coffee table’ book with lots of fantastic shots both old and new. There are several sections to the book including a large history section and ex-workers section. It is for these, I am very interested to get more photographs.
I was wondering if you would like to contribute to the book in any way. Do you have any more shots and or would you be willing to have any of these shots included into the book. The shot of Gilbert Scott is wonderful and would i love to know where you got it together with some of the Station under construction.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards – Annie

By: belinda

belinda — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:09:18 +0000

another fantastic read
this awesome building that has always evoked so much establishment embarrassment- it just will not go away like a bad penny or the tower of london it comes back to remember our industrial past in the middle of london
makes everything around look small and domestic .
thank you so much for putting this together

By: Planet Mondo

Planet Mondo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:10:23 +0000

Quality, quality, blogging. If only I could come up with something like this..

By: davyh

davyh — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:26:51 +0000

Well, I never knew it was once lopsided…

Not an upturned billiards table; definitely an upturned Utility dining table.

Very sad what’s happened to it – I blame Thatcher (as for most things).