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Battersea Power Station in London is a defunct power station that was the first in a series of large coal-fired electrical generating facilities set up in England as part of the National Grid power distribution system then being introduced. The first part of the structure was built in 1939, and the station ceased electricity-generation in 1983. Since then the site has remained largely unused, with numerous failed redevelopment plans from successive site owners. The building is the largest brick building in Europe and is notable for its original and lavish Art Deco fittings and decor. The station famously appears in The Beatles' 1965 Help! movie (with a graphic identifying it as "a famous power station") and on the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals. Download high resolution version (1081x750, 54 KB)Battersea Power Station - London - England - photo by and copyright Tagishsimon - 2nd May 2004 From across the Thames, to the north east of the Power Station. ...
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The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network in Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere in Great Britain can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere. ...
Electricity distribution is the penultimate process in the delivery of electric power, the part between transmission and user purchase from an electricity retailer. ...
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The building is Grade II* listed[1], and the condition was described as "very bad" by English Heritage, who have included it on their Buildings at Risk Register. The site has been owned by Irish company Real Estate Opportunities (REO) since November 2006, after they purchased it for £400 million.[2] Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
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Background During the 1930s electricity was supplied by municipal undertakings - small companies that built stations dedicated to a single industry or group of factories and sold any excess power to the public.
Due to differing standards of voltage and frequency, Parliament decided that the power grid should be a single system under public ownership. This sparked a storm of protest from those who thought that the government should not be involved and it would be another 30 years before nationalisation was completed. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...
Meanwhile, several private power companies reacted to the proposals by forming the London Power Company in 1925. Their plan was to build a smaller number of very large stations and sell the power to anyone who wanted it. Their first power station was planned for the Battersea area on the south bank of the River Thames in London. Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ...
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Architecture This sparked protests from those who felt the building was too large and would be an eyesore, and from those who were worried about the pollution. The company addressed the former by hiring Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, a noted architect and industrial designer (also famous for the design of the red telephone box, of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and also another London power station, Bankside, which now houses the Tate Modern art gallery). Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM, FRIBA (November 9, 1880 – February 8, 1960) was an English architect known for his work on such buildings as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station. ...
K2 red telephone boxes behind Enzo Plazzottas bronze, Young Dancer, on Broad Street, Covent Garden, London A K6 red telephone box in Oxford The red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was a once familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom. ...
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral steps The south elevation and main entrance to the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, a Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool, has the official name of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. ...
Bankside Power Station after conversion to the Tate Modern, from the Millennium Bridge Bankside Power Station is located on the south bank of the Thames in the Bankside district of London. ...
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The resulting design is a steel-framed building with brickwork hung from the outside, similar to the skyscrapers being built in the US at the time. Construction, which was carried out by John Mowlem & Co, started in 1929 and was completed by 1939. Most of the electrical equipment including the steam turbogenerators was supplied by the Metropolitan Vickers company. The original power station had a single long hall with a chimney at either end. From 1953 to 1955 a second Station B, identical from the outside, was constructed alongside the original, which then became known as Station A. This gave the station its familiar four-chimney layout. Far from being an eyesore, the station has since become one of London's most famous landmarks and is generally loved. Mowlem is one of the UKs largest construction and engineering companies. ...
Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. ...
The power station was the site of a fire on April 20, 1964, which caused power failures throughout London including at the BBC Television Centre, which was slated to launch BBC Two that night. The launch was delayed until the following day at 11am. is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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District heating scheme After the end of the Second World War the London Power Company took the opportunity to introduce a new innovation - a district heating scheme better known now as Cogeneration. Some 11,000 people benefitted from the scheme which provided hot water and central heating to the newly redeveloped areas within Pimlico. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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Pimlico is a small area of central London in the City of Westminster that is primarily residential and well known for its collection of small hotels. ...
End of operation When it first opened, the station had a 105 megawatt steam turbine. At the time, this was the largest in Europe. After World War II this was enlarged to approximately 500 MW. In the 1950s, 60 MW was considered to be 'large' for UK stations. Power stations' output continued to grow and this factor, coupled with increased operating costs (Battersea required flue gas cleaning) led to its demise. In 1975 Station A (by then quite out of date) was shut down, with rumours that Station B would soon follow. Intense public pressure mounted to save the buildings, notably Station A's Art Deco interior. In 1980 the station was declared a heritage site, and in 1983 production at Station B ended. The megawatt (symbol: MW) is a unit for measuring power corresponding to one million (106) watts. ...
A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work. ...
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Redevelopment  Inside Battersea Power Station, 2006 There have been several projects to redevelop the Power Station.
A 1984 competition for redesign of the site was won by a consortium including Alton Towers Limited, who proposed an indoor theme park, which received planning approval in 1986. Work in converting the site was begun but the project was halted due to lack of funding in 1989, leaving huge holes in the roof through which machinery had been removed from the building. Theme Park is a simulation computer game designed by Bullfrog Productions, released in 1994, in which the player designs and operates an amusement park. ...
In 1993, development company Parkview International purchased the outstanding loans from the banks and following resolution of creditors claims, acquired the freehold title in May 1996. The company received unencumbered possession of the site in April 2003. Having purchased the site, Parkview started work on a £1.1bn project to restore the building and to redevelop the 38 acre site in one of the largest privately-owned development projects in the UK. GBP redirects here. ...
Parkview's project plan, called The Power Station, proposed to develop restaurants, retail, cinemas and other cultural and commercial offerings within the existing building. In addition, they proposed new buildings comprising two hotels, a theatre, flats, offices, showrooms and a £26m scheme to modernise and upgrade nearby Battersea Park railway station. The proposal included plans to expand the 15 hectare (38 acre) site along the bank of the River Thames to include two hotels, a conference centre, an event auditorium and about 700 residential units. The design for the scheme was by Grimshaws Architects and Buro Happold. For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ...
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An independent environmental impact assessment conducted by Arup had forecast that the project would be responsible for creating some 6,000 (full time equivalent) new jobs and that nearly 3,500 of these would go to people living within the locality. At the launch of a recruitment office in July 2005, the then-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions David Blunkett said, "this development is good news for the people of East Battersea, indeed the whole of London." An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is an assessment of the likely influence a project may have on the environment. ...
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The ministers Gordon Brown, Ruth Kelly and Bill Rammell visited the Power Station in March 2006 to launch a joint venture between Parkview, their construction manager Bovis Lend Lease, the Learning and Skills Council, Lambeth College and Wandsworth Council to provide onsite training for students learning building skills. Speaking at the event, Gordon Brown said “this is exactly the sort of project that we want to see more of - one which develops the skills of young people and adults, and where employers are investing in their workforces. I look forward to visiting you all in a few years time when this project is complete". For others with the same or similar names, see Gordon Brown (disambiguation). ...
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On 13 October 2005, Parkview, English Heritage and the London Borough of Wandsworth claimed that the chimneys are structurally unsound and irreparable, and the Council approved a plan to demolish and rebuild the chimneys. News of this plan was met with controversy, with some commentators suggesting that Parkview might end up not replacing the chimneys after demolition. A local opposition group commissioned an alternative engineers' report which claimed that the existing chimneys could be repaired. In response, Parkview claimed to have given a legally binding undertaking to the Council to provide certainty that the chimneys will be replaced like-for-like in accordance with the requirements of English Heritage and the planning authorities. However, campaigners suggested that as Parkview was registered in the British Virgin Islands, the council would not be able to enforce the legal agreement. Further concerns were raised when the Council's Borough Solicitor, when questioned by the Council's planning applications committee members, was not able to give an assurance that a watertight legal agreement to rebuild the chimneys could be made with an offshore company. is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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On 30 November 2006, it was announced that Real Estate Opportunities, led by Irish businessmen Richard Barrett and Johnny Ronan of Treasury Holdings, had purchased Battersea Power Station and the surrounding land for €595m. It was initially unclear what impact this transaction would have on the redevelopment plans.[3]. However, REO subsequently announced that the previous plan by Parkview had been dropped and that they had appointed the practice of Uruguayan-born architect Rafael Viñoly, of New York as the new master planner for the site. The engineers, Buro Happold, were retained on the design team. is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The cost to make the power station safe to develop is £150 million. Rob Tingle is the man in charge of the development, and he has said that he is "hoping [he] can get this power station open to the public by about 2014". It is planned to include apartments, shops, restaurants, bars, a hotel, cafés, etc., which will all be open to the public. The chimneys are in disrepair, so they will be rebuilt using the architects' original drawings and original materials.
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Opposition The Battersea Power Station Community Group campaigned against the Parkview plan, and argued for an alternative community-based scheme to be drawn up. The Group was sceptical that Parkview would deliver its redevelopment project and doubted that the benefits claimed for the scheme, such as improved local transport, new jobs, large public spaces and the opening up of the riverside, would materialise. The group described the plans as "a deeply unattractive project that has no affordable housing anywhere on the 38 acre site, no decent jobs for local people and no credible public transport strategy". The group also said "this is just the last in a long line of planning applications from Parkview going back over 10 years that have gone nowhere. We fear that Parkview is merely proposing unrealisable projects while the value of the land increases and the power station crumbles."[4]
Conversely, the Battersea Power Station Community Forum, which represents the interests of local organisations including elected offices, the Council, residents associations, places of worship, educational establishments, business and amenity groups, enthusiastically supported Parkview’s plans for regeneration. The Forum was established by Parkview, and local people who were critical of Parkview's lack of progress and neglect of the listed building were not allowed to attend.[citation needed].
In 2002, members of the Battersea Power Station Community Group set up Battersea Power Station Company Ltd, a development trust, with the aim of promoting conservation and redevelopment of the site. The Company achieved charitable status in April 2005. In February 2007, the company proposed that the power station should be the venue for the proposed United Kingdom Energy Technologies Institute, which is being established by the government to research new technologies for combating climate change. The directors of the Company suggested that Battersea Power Station would be an apt location for the new Institute. The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is an energy research and development institute planned to begin operating in the United Kingdom in 2008. ...
Cultural impact Battersea Power Station has been pictured on several album covers by rock and pop groups. Most notably, it was featured on the cover of Pink Floyd's 1977 album, Animals, with the group's inflatable pink pig floating above the station. The inflatable pig seen tethered to the power station reportedly "broke loose" from its moorings and veered into the flight path of Heathrow Airport before landing somewhere in Kent.[5] On subsequent photo shoots, sharpshooters were hired to shoot it down if it went astray. These problems led to there being no usable single photo of the pig above the building, and the sleeve is actually a composite image. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (953x953, 177 KB) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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The station can also be seen on The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, on the back cover of Les Claypool's Frog Brigade's Live Frogs Set 2 (a complete cover of Pink Floyd's Animals), in the booklet art for The Who's 1973 album, Quadrophenia and on the cover of London Elektricity's Power Ballads album. It was used in 2001 as the background art for the cover of the Petula Clark boxed set, Meet Me in Battersea Park. It also appears on the cover of Jan Hammer's 12" single of "The Runner (marathon mix)". The photograph on the sleeve of Quark, Strangeness and Charm by Hawkwind is of the power station's control room. The station also appears in the 1997 music video by American pop band Hanson for the song "Where's the Love". The Orb are an English electronic music group known for popularising chill out music in the 1990s and spawning the genre of ambient house. ...
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Leslie Edward Les Claypool (born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California, U.S.) is a singer, lyricist, bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, best known for his work with the alternative rock band Primus. ...
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Battersea Park peace pagoda The bandstand in Battersea Park The cover of Petula Clarks 2001 box set, Meet me in Battersea Park Battersea Park is a 200 acre (0. ...
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The Jam shot their promotional video for the song "News Of The World" on the roof of the power station. Photos from the shoot featuring the station also appear on the sleeve of the Snap! compilation. The Jam were an English punk rock/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ...
The station was used as a setting in Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film, Sabotage. It appeared for a moment in the British Doctor Who television science fiction series in The Dalek Invasion of Earth in 1964, which saw the station in the 22nd century, having been converted to a nuclear facility. It appeared again in the 2006 Doctor Who episodes "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" as the base to which Londoners are drawn to be converted into Cybermen. It appeared briefly in The Beatles' 1965 film Help!, and many years later, the interior was seen in the "Find The Fish" segment of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Battersea Power Station was also used as the façade for the Ministry of Love in Michael Radford's 1984 film of George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. The streets surrounding the Power Station and its interior were also used in "Cry Havoc", a 1991 episode of the long running police drama, The Bill. In May 2007, Battersea Power Station played a central role in an episode of the BBC TV series New Tricks. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was an iconic and highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ...
Sabotage is a 1936 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which tells the story of Carl Verloc (played by Oscar Homolka), a terrorist from an unnamed European country, who conducts a series of attacks in London. ...
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from November 21 to December 26, 1964. ...
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The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ...
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Help! is a 1965 film starring the The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal and Roy Kinnear. ...
Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life is a musical film comedy made in 1983 by the Monty Python comedy team. ...
The Ministry of Love (or Miniluv in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that govern Airstrip One, Oceania in George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ...
Michael Radford was born February 24, 1946 in New Delhi, India to a British father and Austrian mother. ...
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The station stood in for an Eastern European military camp in the MacGyver TV movie, The Lost Treasure of Atlantis, and it appeared briefly in the background of an episode of the ABC television series Lost entitled "Fire and Water", sporting an identifying sign: "Widmore Construction", an important organisation in the Lost mythos. The building was used as inspiration for the "Advanced Power Plant" structure in the PC game Command & Conquer: Red Alert. It was rented by Bruce Dickinson to be a film location of three of his videos, but only appeared in one, "Man Of Sorrows", in 1999. MacGyver is an American adventure television series, produced in the United States and Canada, about the laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. ...
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In recent years, the building has occasionally played host to concerts and to performances by the Cirque du Soleil (in a nearby marquee). In Ian McKellen's film of Shakespeare's Richard III, the derelict power station surreally stands in for Bosworth Field in Richard's final battle scene. Cirque du Soleil (French for Circus of the Sun, in English pronounced ) is an entertainment empire based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada located in Saint-Michel, and founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier. ...
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During Pink Floyd's 2005 Live 8 performance, during the song "Money", Battersea was briefly shown when the camera panned out away from the stage. Pink Floyd are an English rock band that initially earned recognition for their psychedelic or space rock music, and, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. ...
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In Alfonso Cuarón's 2006 film, Children of Men, the station appears rebuilt as the "Ark Of Art"; the film, set in 2027, imagines a world where sudden universal infertility has doomed the human race to extinction. The resulting global chaos leaves Britain as one of the few functioning societies on Earth (albeit one held together with fascist brutality). The Power Station contains art treasures salvaged from less stable nations and preserved for a "posterity" that's not coming, as the film's protagonist (Clive Owen) points out to the curator, his cousin (Danny Huston) as they dine beneath the shattered and rebuilt Michaelangelo's David. An inflatable pig is tethered to the exterior of the building, a reference to the Animals album cover. Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (born November 28, 1961 in Mexico City) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. ...
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Clive Owen (born October 3, 1964) is a Golden Globe and BAFTA winning critically acclaimed English actor, now a regular performer in Hollywood and independent American films. ...
Danny Huston is a Hollywood film director, the brother of actress Anjelica Huston, the son of legendary director John Huston, and the grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. ...
Michelangelos David, sculpted from 1500 to 1504, is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture and one of Michelangelos two greatest works of sculpture, along with the Pietà . However, it is the David alone that almost certainly holds the title of the most recognizable statue in the history of art. ...
Battersea Power Station stands as the hideout of Colonel Olrik, in the French comic Menaces sur l' empire by Pierre Veys and Nicolas Barral (DARGAUD 2005), a parody of the classic comic series of Edgard P. Jacobs' Blake and Mortimer. Blake and Mortimer, The Yellow M Blake and Mortimer is a comic book/graphic novel series that was created by the Belgian writer and artist Edgar P. Jacobs (1904-1987). ...
Photographer Vera Lutter used the station in several pieces of her work. She created the photographs by turning storage containers into giant pinhole cameras and placing them in front of the building for several days. Principle of a pinhole camera. ...
In October 2007, the power station was used as a filming location for the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight.[6] The Dark Knight is a 2008 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. ...
In December 2007, an inflatable cartoon pig was placed above the station, in both a tribute to the Pink Floyd cover and a promotion for the DVD release of The Simpsons Movie.[7] Pink Floyd are an English rock band that initially earned recognition for their psychedelic or space rock music, and, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. ...
The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 animated comedy film based on the animated television series The Simpsons, directed by David Silverman, and scheduled to be released worldwide by July 27, 2007. ...
See also For Government policy, see Energy policy of the United Kingdom Energy use and conservation in the United Kingdom has been receiving increased attention over recent years. ...
For energy use in practice, see Energy use and conservation in the United Kingdom The Energy policy of the United Kingdom is a set of official publications and activities directed at the present and future production, transmission and use of various power technologies within the UK. Historically a country emphasizing...
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