The internet is alight with Battersea PS at the moment, so I thought we'd have our say. Explorers have been hitting Battersea since at least 2005, which is when we became aware of it. No doubt people had got in before us, we didn't know of them and we don't know now to be honest. Stoop and JD of Suburban made a small mission there in 2005 and got to the brick base of the chimneys, and for whatever reason abandoned the attempt. Me and Stumpy went a little while later and rinsed the place, here's some of the key pictures...
In fact the very first picture I took there... 25/11/2005, at 00.06 hrs. ...
We had a bit of a rummage around, went home and didn't come back until July 2006. God knows why the delay...
But this time we had a plan. We'd seen on the BBC website (about the only pictures available at the time) a picture of a control room (B side). We were going to find it. And we did, at 0200hrs 3/7/2006, well sort of...
That was a great first ! One of a few there.
This time we'd pushed the journey to the whole of roof, the directors stairwell, the turbine halls, and almost to the white room. We didn't know there was a white room of course, but at that time it was protected by a PIR, so we stayed clear.
So that was that night over, we banged over the fence onto the main road, looked back... straight at a hoarding with a picture of Control Room B. Damn, that was the one we intended to see in the first place, and we missed it.
A few days later we went back to find it, and find it we did, at 01.15 on the 6/7/2006...
That was quite an expansive trip as well, covering a lot of ground.
We kept exploring that place right through to 2009
One of the best days was in March 2009. Alias and (someone else, remind me) found a way into the power station from the opposite bank of the Thames. It was dusty and dirty beyond belief, but it worked. At one point in the tunnel you had to crawl through a ladder rung, so not a route for everybody. Of course, this meant we could now explore it in daylight...
etc
Battersea steam tunnel was a good find, with Stumpy and Citadel Monkey, a local. From a paragraph in a book, we went hunting for the community heating project on the opposite bank, and followed the tunnel back under the Thames to Battersea....
Those pipes were red hot !
And my final notable point is the White room. No credit taken, I believe it was found by Palace Fan and Downfallen, who put the word out...
Great times, with great people, did dozens of trips in the end I reckon.
What's your story? Show us your pictures below...
In fact the very first picture I took there... 25/11/2005, at 00.06 hrs. ...
We had a bit of a rummage around, went home and didn't come back until July 2006. God knows why the delay...
But this time we had a plan. We'd seen on the BBC website (about the only pictures available at the time) a picture of a control room (B side). We were going to find it. And we did, at 0200hrs 3/7/2006, well sort of...
That was a great first ! One of a few there.
This time we'd pushed the journey to the whole of roof, the directors stairwell, the turbine halls, and almost to the white room. We didn't know there was a white room of course, but at that time it was protected by a PIR, so we stayed clear.
So that was that night over, we banged over the fence onto the main road, looked back... straight at a hoarding with a picture of Control Room B. Damn, that was the one we intended to see in the first place, and we missed it.
A few days later we went back to find it, and find it we did, at 01.15 on the 6/7/2006...
That was quite an expansive trip as well, covering a lot of ground.
We kept exploring that place right through to 2009
One of the best days was in March 2009. Alias and (someone else, remind me) found a way into the power station from the opposite bank of the Thames. It was dusty and dirty beyond belief, but it worked. At one point in the tunnel you had to crawl through a ladder rung, so not a route for everybody. Of course, this meant we could now explore it in daylight...
etc
Battersea steam tunnel was a good find, with Stumpy and Citadel Monkey, a local. From a paragraph in a book, we went hunting for the community heating project on the opposite bank, and followed the tunnel back under the Thames to Battersea....
Those pipes were red hot !
And my final notable point is the White room. No credit taken, I believe it was found by Palace Fan and Downfallen, who put the word out...
Great times, with great people, did dozens of trips in the end I reckon.
What's your story? Show us your pictures below...
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although quite worrying at the time I can imagine. Prob one of the incidents that always sticks in my mind from exploring issues.
