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Power stations Collection

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Choose from 67 items in our Power stations Collection

Power stations Collection: Nuclear power

Nuclear power Collection
14 items

Power stations Collection: Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station Collection
16 items

Power stations Collection: Gas works

Gas works Collection
18 items

Power stations Collection: Wind farms

Wind farms Collection
32 items

Power stations Collection: Ferrybridge Power Station

Ferrybridge Power Station Collection
14 items

Background imagePower stations Collection: Cremorne Wharf FF003276

Cremorne Wharf FF003276
CREMORNE WHARF, Chelsea, London. View south-west along the River Thames at dusk towards Cremorne Wharf and the Chelsea Flour Mills with the Lots Road Power Station behind

Background imagePower stations Collection: Battersea Power Station N130002

Battersea Power Station N130002
BATTERSEA POWER STATION, Battersea Park Road, London, SW8 5BP. View from north west, looking over the River Thames

Background imagePower stations Collection: Cooling towers and pylons DP157352

Cooling towers and pylons DP157352
Didcot A Power Station, Power Station Road, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 7HA. North west natural draft cooling towers and an electricity pylon

Background imagePower stations Collection: Didcot Power Station 27604_016

Didcot Power Station 27604_016
Didcot A Power Station, Oxfordshire. Photographed from the air in February 2013, prior to decommission & closure on 22nd March 2013

Background imagePower stations Collection: Portishead Power Station JEH_22046_45

Portishead Power Station JEH_22046_45
Portishead B Power Station, Somerset. Opened in 1955 it originally had four oil fired and eight coal-fired boilers. It closed in 1982 and its chimneys were demolished in 1992

Background imagePower stations Collection: Battersea Power Station a98_05903

Battersea Power Station a98_05903
BATTERSEA POWER STATION, London. View from the north bank of the River Thames at night. It was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1937 and was the largest brick building in europe

Background imagePower stations Collection: Battersea Power Station a077607

Battersea Power Station a077607
BATTERSEA POWER STATION, London. View of the station in Battersea, as seen at dusk from across the River Thames in Westminster

Background imagePower stations Collection: Hydro power DP143653

Hydro power DP143653
Linton Falls Hydro Electric Power Station, Yorkshire Dales National Park. First established in 1909 it was abandoned in 1948. Restored in 2011 it is producing hydroelectric power once again

Background imagePower stations Collection: Solar farm at Lyneham 29617_001

Solar farm at Lyneham 29617_001
RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire, 2015. The solar farm

Background imagePower stations Collection: Ironbridge Power Station DP248795

Ironbridge Power Station DP248795
Ironbridge Power Station, Buildwas Road, Telford, Shropshire. Cooling towers, flood-lit, night-time shot. November 2015

Background imagePower stations Collection: T pylon construction 35168_010

T pylon construction 35168_010
Construction of worlds first T Pylon, forming part of the National Grids Hinckley Connection Project, Biddisham, Somerset, 2022

Background imagePower stations Collection: Ironbridge B DP248793

Ironbridge B DP248793
Ironbridge B Power Station, Buildwas Road, Buildwas, Shropshire. General view along General view looking east along the main railway lines at Ironbridge B Power Station at night

Background imagePower stations Collection: Coombe Gill Mill DP348571

Coombe Gill Mill DP348571
Coombe Gill Mill, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria. General view of the watermill from the north-west, with Coombe Gill in the foreground

Background imagePower stations Collection: Didcot Power Station 33857_023

Didcot Power Station 33857_023
Didcot Power Station, Oxfordshire, 2019

Background imagePower stations Collection: Fawley Power Station 33844_026

Fawley Power Station 33844_026
Fawley Power Station before demolition started in October 2019, Hampshire, 2019

Background imagePower stations Collection: Wroughton Airfield solar farm 33080_016

Wroughton Airfield solar farm 33080_016
Wroughton Airfield solar farm, Swindon, 2016

Background imagePower stations Collection: Building Plymouth Wharf JLP01_01_033_13

Building Plymouth Wharf JLP01_01_033_13
PLYMOUTH WHARF, CITY OF PLYMOUTH. A team of men fixing steel reinforcements during the construction of Plymouth Wharf. Plymouth Wharf was built by Laing in the early 1950s

Background imagePower stations Collection: Portishead B Power Station JLP01_10_06741

Portishead B Power Station JLP01_10_06741
PORTISHEAD B POWER STATION, PORTISHEAD AND NORTH WESTON, NORTH SOMERSET. A view of Portishead B Power Station taken from the east side of the dock

Background imagePower stations Collection: Plymouth B Power Station JLP01_08_008717

Plymouth B Power Station JLP01_08_008717
PLYMOUTH B POWER STATION, CITY OF PLYMOUTH. A view of Plymouth B Power Station with a piling frame in the foreground, taken during construction of the stations coaling wharf

Background imagePower stations Collection: Working on a chimney JLP01_08_060724

Working on a chimney JLP01_08_060724
ISLE OF GRAIN, MEDWAY. Construction workers suspended in harnesses working on the surface of a chimney stack at the South Eastern Gas Boards (SEGAS) Power Station on the Isle of Grain

Background imagePower stations Collection: Lynemouth Power Station 28909_040

Lynemouth Power Station 28909_040
Lynemouth Power Station, Northumberland, 2016. NZ3090

Background imagePower stations Collection: Eggborough Power Station JLP01_08_075183a

Eggborough Power Station JLP01_08_075183a
EGGBOROUGH POWER STATION, A19, EGGBOROUGH, SELBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE. A view of Eggborough Power Station from the south-west, showing a front-loader tractor working in the field in the foreground

Background imagePower stations Collection: Eggborough Power Station JLP01_08_075180

Eggborough Power Station JLP01_08_075180
EGGBOROUGH POWER STATION, A19, EGGBOROUGH, SELBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE. A view of Eggborough Power Station framed by trees, seen from the south-west

Background imagePower stations Collection: Eggborough Power Station JLP01_08_072336

Eggborough Power Station JLP01_08_072336
EGGBOROUGH POWER STATION, A19, EGGBOROUGH, SELBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE. An exterior view of Eggborough Power Station, seen from the south-west

Background imagePower stations Collection: Eggborough Power Station JLP01_08_072337b

Eggborough Power Station JLP01_08_072337b
EGGBOROUGH POWER STATION, A19, EGGBOROUGH, SELBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE. An exterior view of Eggborough Power Station, seen from the south-east

Background imagePower stations Collection: Eggborough Power Station 28840_029

Eggborough Power Station 28840_029
Eggborough Power Station, North Yorkshire, 2015. SE5724

Background imagePower stations Collection: Fawley Power Station DP221569

Fawley Power Station DP221569
Fawley Power Station, Western Road, Fawley, New Forest, Hampshire. General view of the power stations control room from the east

Background imagePower stations Collection: Ferrybridge Power Station DP221186

Ferrybridge Power Station DP221186
Ferrybridge C Power Station, Stranglands Lane, Ferrybridge, Wakefield. General view of the power station from the north-east, with a horse in a field in the foreground

Background imagePower stations Collection: Cooling towers 28747_012

Cooling towers 28747_012
Ironbridge B Power Station, Shropshire. Cooling towers, 2015. SJ6503

Background imagePower stations Collection: Control desk DP249336

Control desk DP249336
Coal and Oil Fired Power Stations: Cottam Power Station, Outgang Lane, Retford, Nottinghamshire. Control room showing unit control desk and lighting above

Background imagePower stations Collection: Cooling Towers, Cottam DP249247

Cooling Towers, Cottam DP249247
Coal and Oil Fired Power Stations: Cottam Power Station, Outgang Lane, Retford, Nottinghamshire. General view of cooling towers from top of the stack, view from west

Background imagePower stations Collection: Control desk DP249335

Control desk DP249335
Coal and Oil Fired Power Stations: Cottam Power Station, Outgang Lane, Retford, Nottinghamshire. Control room showing unit control desk and lighting above

Background imagePower stations Collection: Control desk DP249494

Control desk DP249494
Coal and Oil Fired Power Stations: Littlebrook D Power Station, Rennie Drive, Dartford, Kent. Interior view of the power stations control room, showing the unit operators control panels

Background imagePower stations Collection: Round windows DP249492

Round windows DP249492
Coal and Oil Fired Power Stations: Littlebrook D Power Station, Rennie Drive, Dartford, Kent. Interior view of a meeting room in the power station, with a row of circular windows in its external wall

Background imagePower stations Collection: Portholes DP249480

Portholes DP249480
Coal and Oil Fired Power Stations: Littlebrook D Power Station, Rennie Drive, Dartford, Kent. Detail of three porthole windows on the side of the power stations control room

Background imagePower stations Collection: Hinkley Point Power Station DP178185

Hinkley Point Power Station DP178185
Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, Nr Bridgwater, Somerset. General view of Hinkley Point A and B power stations as seen from Lilstock beach. Viewed from the west, 2015

Background imagePower stations Collection: Tilbury Power Station 29649_050

Tilbury Power Station 29649_050
Tilbury B Power Station, Essex. Coal-fired power station built in 1961. In 2011 an attempt was made to convert to biomass but the power station has since been decommissioned. Photographed in May 2015

Background imagePower stations Collection: Berkeley Power Station JEH_22049_14

Berkeley Power Station JEH_22049_14
Berkeley Power Station, Gloucestershire. Nuclear power station powered by two Magnox reactors. It openend in 1962 and was decommissioned in 1989. Photographed by Jim Hancock in 1971

Background imagePower stations Collection: Heysham Power Station EAW134482

Heysham Power Station EAW134482
Heysham, Lancashire. Construction of a nuclear power station. Photographed in July 1964. Aerofilms Collection

Background imagePower stations Collection: Long Newnton Airfield 27446_039

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

Background imagePower stations Collection: Hinkley Point 27466_007

Hinkley Point 27466_007
Hinkley Point A Nuclear Power Station, Somerset. The two main buildings each housed Magnox reactors. The power station was shut down in 1999 and is currently being decommissioned

Background imagePower stations Collection: High Marnham Power Station 28336_002

High Marnham Power Station 28336_002
High Marnham Power Station, Nottingham. A former coal fired power station near the River Trent. Started in 1955, it was fully commissioned in 1962

Background imagePower stations Collection: Didcot Power Station 27708_010

Didcot Power Station 27708_010
Didcot Power Station, Oxfordshire. Aerial view from June 2013, after decomissioning. SU5191/9




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