Have been down here a few times since the start of the month to check out access and security issues but this is the first time I've made it upstairs, was making good progress on my previous visit but seems I mistook another forum member for security and I gave up after hanging around in some shadows for a good while. Didn't have time to work on switch room B so am going to revisit, lots changing on ground level between each visit.
Thanks to Sentinel for some awesome access tips. [:
I could write an essay on the history of the place but it's been done so many times before.. so something ripped from the web: "Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London. It comprises two individual power stations, built in two stages in the form of a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s, with Battersea B Power Station to its east in the 1950s. The two stations were built to an identical design, providing the well known four-chimney layout. The station ceased generating electricity in 1983, but over the past 50 years it has become one of the best known landmarks in London and is Grade II* listed.[1][2] The station's celebrity owes much to numerous cultural appearances, which include a shot in The Beatles' 1965 movie Help!, appearing in the video for the 1982 hit single "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by heavy metal band Judas Priest and being used in the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals, as well as a cameo appearance in Take That's music video "The Flood". In addition, a photograph of the plant's control room was used as cover art on Hawkwind's 1977 album Quark, Strangeness and Charm."
Taken from Battersea Park
Great lifts.
Ground level stairs up.
Up top.
Control Room A
Control Room A
Looking out onto the turbine hall.
Taken from the base of the chimney, hoping to walk across to the other side but didn't happen. :P
New housing developments, taken from the derelict wharf connected to the station.
Thanks to Sentinel for some awesome access tips. [:
I could write an essay on the history of the place but it's been done so many times before.. so something ripped from the web: "Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London. It comprises two individual power stations, built in two stages in the form of a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s, with Battersea B Power Station to its east in the 1950s. The two stations were built to an identical design, providing the well known four-chimney layout. The station ceased generating electricity in 1983, but over the past 50 years it has become one of the best known landmarks in London and is Grade II* listed.[1][2] The station's celebrity owes much to numerous cultural appearances, which include a shot in The Beatles' 1965 movie Help!, appearing in the video for the 1982 hit single "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by heavy metal band Judas Priest and being used in the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals, as well as a cameo appearance in Take That's music video "The Flood". In addition, a photograph of the plant's control room was used as cover art on Hawkwind's 1977 album Quark, Strangeness and Charm."
Taken from Battersea Park
Great lifts.
Ground level stairs up.
Up top.
Control Room A
Control Room A
Looking out onto the turbine hall.
Taken from the base of the chimney, hoping to walk across to the other side but didn't happen. :P
New housing developments, taken from the derelict wharf connected to the station.
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