Power Station Collection (#6)

Night time picture of Battersea Power Station lit up on the River Thames, London. June 1951

This picture taken in 1960 shows a view immortalised 10 years later in the famous Michael Caine film Get Carter. Dunston Power Stations six chimneys rise into the air with rolling fields behind them

Battersea power station in London, illuminated at night at the time of the Festival of Britain. May 1951

General views of the Northumberland village of Cambois. The estuary of the River Blyth with the power station in the background 27/04/72

Manchester Ship Canal: Opening of New Oil Dock at Eastham. A tug helps the first tanker through the lock at the new oil terminal at Eastham. January 1954 P002583

Manchester Ship Canal: Opening of New Oil Dock at Eastham. A tug helps the first tanker through the lock at the new oil terminal at Eastham as a formation of RAF meteors fly overhead

Current car. This is the first electric car to go into production since World War II, and the Electricity Council have bought sixty-one Enfield 8000s for their employees

Electricity: the Turbine Room at Battersea Power Station. OP 639 H. Circa 1946 P018767

Steeplejacks working on a new tower chimney on Battersea Power station. August 1949 O19700-001

Shoreham, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Shoreham, 1844. The Norfolk Suspension Bridge at Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex. From this point is a branch line to Shoreham, a passage of ten minutes

Norway, Svalbard, Pyramiden, Russian settlement, Derelict coal-fired power station at abandoned Russian mining settlement Pyramid

Chelsea Chimneys: Power Station on the Site of Old Cremorne Gardens, c1935. Creator: Huson
Chelsea Chimneys: Power Station on the Site of Old Cremorne Gardens, c1935. View of Lots Road Power Station on the River Thames in Chelsea, south west London. It was built 1902-1904

Instruments of Power for the Rushing Waters of Niagara River, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Lots Road Power Station - Evening, 20th century. Artist
Lots Road Power Station - Evening, 20th century. View from the River Thames

Low tide, Deptford, 1972. Artist: RCD Lowry
Low tide, Deptford, 1972

Pipe wrapping to prevent corrosion on steel pipes, Old Denaby, South Yorkshire, 1961. In the days before advances in manufacturing processes enabled plastic pipes to be produced

Austin lorry on a construction site, Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1959. Artist: Michael Walters
Austin lorry on a construction site, Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1959. An Austin lorry at Skelton Grange B Power Station in Leeds, built between 1955 and 1962 by Kier Construction but demolished in 1998

Completed M1 Tinsley Viaduct, 1968. Artist: Michael Walters
Completed Tinsley Viaduct on the M1, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1968. The twin cooling towers of the Blackburn Meadows Power Station which many travellers heading north used as a landmark can be

Students visiting Mexborough Power Station, South Yorkshire, 1960. A visit by students of Schofield Technical College

Visit of the Yorkshire Controller to Mexborough Power Station, South Yorkshire, 1960. A photograph taken for the CEGB

Chelsea Power Station, c1927, (1927). Artist: Reginald Belfield
Chelsea Power Station, c1927, (1927). Lots Road Power Station is a disused coal and later oil-fired power station on the River Thames at Lots Road in Chelsea, London

Electrical Power Station at Water Orton, Hams Hall, near Birmingham, 1928. From The Studio Volume 98 [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1929.]

Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric station, USSR, 1970s. Built on the Yenisei River in southern Siberia, the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectic plant is the sixth largest hydrolectric plant in the world

Hydroelectric power station near Tashkent, at that point in the USSR

Long Newnton Airfield 27446_039
Long Newnton, Gloucestershire. Solar farm on the site of the former RAF airfield

Didcot Power Station 27604_020
Didcot A Power Station, Oxfordshire. Photographed from the air in February 2013, prior to decommission & closure on 22nd March 2013

Cross section diagram of a hydro-electric power station

Battersea Power Station Night View
With dimensions of 160m x 170m, the roof of the boiler house 50m tall, and its four 103m tall, tapering chimneys, the station is a massive structure

Battersea Power Station - The Turbine Hall, view from the ground showing the giant turbines - 1933 ?2006 TopFoto

Wood for biomass power plant
Wood for power plant. Close-up of cut wood that will be burnt in a biomass power station. Photographed in Vastra Gotland, Sweden

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A summer storm at Southwold starts to clear as light breaks through above Sizewell power station in the distance

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Battersea Power Station and train lines at night in London

UK, England, View of Battersea Power Station from Chelsea Bridge; London

Palace Pier And Shoreham Power Station

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Sizewell B Power Station, Leiston, Suffolk. View from a tower crane showing the John Laing construction site. Photographed in November 1990

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Sizewell B Power Station, Leiston, Suffolk. John Laing construction works on the reactor containment building. Photographed in April 1991

Didcot Power Station 27604_038
Didcot B Power Station, Oxfordshire. Photographed from the air in February 2013, before it caught fire in October 2014

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