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Report - Central Power Station Control Room & Pumping Station, Bromborough April 2024

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mookster

grumpy sod
Regular User
This is absolutely one of the places I should have explored a great many years ago but simply didn't. I actually first looked at it wayyyyyy back in 2011 when I was last exploring anything on the Wirral peninsula, however back then found the fence had recently been patched up, so moved on to other better things rather than waste any more time looking for a secluded access. Things are much much easier in 2024, it is the literal definition of a walk in wheelchair access site, although you probably wouldn't manage to get a wheelchair in any of the buildings.

Central Power Station was one of three power stations built on the Wirral in the early 1900s. Central was the oldest of the three, with power being generated between 1918 and 1998 providing power for both local domestic and industrial usage, Bromborough Power Station, the second oldest, was online between 1951 and 1980 providing entirely public electricity supplies, and the third, Merseyside Power Station, was operational between 1958 and 1998. Both Central and Merseyside power stations were owned by the Lever brothers of the massive Unilever company and supplied power to their factory in Port Sunlight as well as the local area after electricity was connected to the houses of Port Sunlight in 1929. It originally contained 3 coal fired boilers and a 5 MW Siemens turbine. In 1930 the power station was expanded, with an additional 6.25 MW turbine and a further three coal fired boilers, and in 1950 it was connected to the National Grid. In addition to the original turbines, a 1.3 MW British Thomas-Houston generator was installed due to the Lever Bros factory requiring steam power for certain processes. In 1970 the oldest of the boiler sets was demolished along with a part of the boiler house, with the rest of the power station decommissioned in 1998. Everything was shortly thereafter demolished with the exception of the pumping station and the 11 kW control room, which was kept online until new facilities for electricity supply were installed by the National Grid. As of 2024 the control room, pumping station and huge storage tank are the only structures left on site, with a new factory built where the power station once stood.

No trace at all remains of either Bromborough or Merseyside power stations on the Wirral peninsula, with Bromborough being demolished in 1986 and Merseyside in 1998.

Nice and easy, no stress at all, it was nice to finally see this control room even if it's utterly ruined - I actually preferred the pumping station here though, it was very photogenic, and not covered head to toe in awful tagging.

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There is one small ancillary building next to the pumping station which still contains the pipework heading down into the depths of the earth, there is an identical setup attached to the pumping station itself but without the pipework.

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Thanks for looking :)
 

Calamity Jane

i see beauty in the unloved, places & things
Regular User
Really like this. Extreme graffiti, but that doesn't distract from the og panel. Lovely decay everywhere too.
 

Liverpool Urbex

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
My first “proper” explore this place, still love it one of the only places I think graffiti makes it look better, not sure why I never visited the bottom floor when I went
 

ChrisV8

28DL Member
28DL Member
This is absolutely one of the places I should have explored a great many years ago but simply didn't. I actually first looked at it wayyyyyy back in 2011 when I was last exploring anything on the Wirral peninsula, however back then found the fence had recently been patched up, so moved on to other better things rather than waste any more time looking for a secluded access. Things are much much easier in 2024, it is the literal definition of a walk in wheelchair access site, although you probably wouldn't manage to get a wheelchair in any of the buildings.

Central Power Station was one of three power stations built on the Wirral in the early 1900s. Central was the oldest of the three, with power being generated between 1918 and 1998 providing power for both local domestic and industrial usage, Bromborough Power Station, the second oldest, was online between 1951 and 1980 providing entirely public electricity supplies, and the third, Merseyside Power Station, was operational between 1958 and 1998. Both Central and Merseyside power stations were owned by the Lever brothers of the massive Unilever company and supplied power to their factory in Port Sunlight as well as the local area after electricity was connected to the houses of Port Sunlight in 1929. It originally contained 3 coal fired boilers and a 5 MW Siemens turbine. In 1930 the power station was expanded, with an additional 6.25 MW turbine and a further three coal fired boilers, and in 1950 it was connected to the National Grid. In addition to the original turbines, a 1.3 MW British Thomas-Houston generator was installed due to the Lever Bros factory requiring steam power for certain processes. In 1970 the oldest of the boiler sets was demolished along with a part of the boiler house, with the rest of the power station decommissioned in 1998. Everything was shortly thereafter demolished with the exception of the pumping station and the 11 kW control room, which was kept online until new facilities for electricity supply were installed by the National Grid. As of 2024 the control room, pumping station and huge storage tank are the only structures left on site, with a new factory built where the power station once stood.

No trace at all remains of either Bromborough or Merseyside power stations on the Wirral peninsula, with Bromborough being demolished in 1986 and Merseyside in 1998.

Nice and easy, no stress at all, it was nice to finally see this control room even if it's utterly ruined - I actually preferred the pumping station here though, it was very photogenic, and not covered head to toe in awful tagging.

53684492149_721e146aeb_b.jpg


53684346493_c1fd5853d0_b.jpg


53684346473_afca685b58_b.jpg


53684492114_548f9e6491_b.jpg


There is one small ancillary building next to the pumping station which still contains the pipework heading down into the depths of the earth, there is an identical setup attached to the pumping station itself but without the pipework.

53684492064_6d163f2b7f_b.jpg


53683254722_d5177b5dbd_b.jpg


53684120016_c5a3309078_b.jpg


53684120006_0dcc79e376_b.jpg


53683254667_fb8d606c6c_b.jpg


53684575795_a547717c73_b.jpg


53684119951_f67d18d30e_b.jpg


53684346358_76032d34de_b.jpg


53684119986_aba294a1b4_b.jpg


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Thanks for looking :)
A lot of these really old power stations had telegraphs like ships.

I’m wondering if that what the pedestals are the remains of?

Great picture's, thanks.
 

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