An oldie but goldie, in fact one of my favourite explores. Looking at previous posts, I felt there was still more to show from here, and this post contains pretty much everything to see in the station. Kirkbride has some good interior shots http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=8602&highlight=battersea The BBC have also been in on the act. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/uk_battersea_power_station/html/6.stm
Most visits by myself or with Liamch over the summer. Some visits hampered by a night hike for cancer and a pop video being made, but not ruined.
Everyone knows the score with this place. Battersea is a combination of two power stations, Station A (Western side) was built in the early 1930s and completed fully in 1934. Demand lead to a second station joining the first on the eastern side, after a national naming competition, Station B was chosen as the name. Completed in 1953. Theo J. Halliday was the original architect and responsible for the Art Deco gloriousness still visible in Station A, particularly in the Control Room. You can see old photos here http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/?cat=131
The station is a London icon, and one most Londoners are proud of. Because of this it has had heavy preservation orders slapped on it over time. Various plans have come and gone, and the latest one is by Real Estate Opportunities. They will introduce a new energy plant there, along with commercial and residential schemes to revive the area. Along with the proposed American Embassy nearby, it’s likely to lead to an extension of the Northern Line.
As an icon, it has been used in lots of visual media. The most famous probably being the Pink Floyd Animals album cover. It also appeared in an early Hitchcock film, Sabotage [nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCp1J46Zfy0[/nomedia] (1m58s into clip). The Control Room A is seen in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life [nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlUu54muOs[/nomedia] And those Mod boys The Jam did a pop video for News of the World on the roof of Station B [nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epLYey3N7A[/nomedia]
On with the explore and pics…
1) Just in case you didn’t know what the place is like
2) Plans room
3) Plans of a different kind. Look carefully at the smaller photo, you can just see they had plans at one time for a white Eiffel Tower like structure.
4) It’s almost sad the way they’ve been trying to save the Station, with different plans over the years.
5) Wages window, with peely paint for its fans…
6) View from chimney scaffold over Station B lower roof
7) Station B stairwell
8) Station B top floor hall, it has a pulley system either side of a central block
9) I love the light through the windows on the wall in this. I know it’s not the greatest of shots.
10) Wide shot of Control Room B
11) It’s switchcraft I tell ya. Control Room B
12) C’est moi in Control Room B. Must have been some dirt on the lens or my face.
13) 3 of the 5 lovely art deco prints that are above Turbine Hall A
14) The unpleasant sight greeting those at the door of Control Room A. Counting the ripped out holes, this is the 5th padlock on there. Sadly some feel necessary to use force.
15) The structure on the western-most side of Station A
16) Using advanced miniature robot technology, I was able to get these Control Room A shots. This is the wide/establishing shot
17) Desk shot
18) The gorgeous ceiling
19) Scaring pigeons for a photo, looking from Station A roof across to Station B
20) Looking North to South along roof of Station A. Past visitors will notice white covers on the roof glass now.
21) Art Deco stairway around lift. Ground floor directors entrance, Station A
22) Directors Lift
23) Directors Lift. I love how the greeny coloured light comes through.
24) Service Tunnel. It's in the basement and leads to another section that goes around a corner with a layer of water. No idea how deep it was.
25) I’ll be leaving now
Hope this has been a good read/view. Please don’t post pics in any replies, it’s bandwidth heavy enough. I’ve numbered them should you want to quote.
If you’ve not had enough, there are another 12 pics here, I didn’t feel were needed for this. http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r176/bukowski_jr/Batty%20Sea%20PS/
Most visits by myself or with Liamch over the summer. Some visits hampered by a night hike for cancer and a pop video being made, but not ruined.
Everyone knows the score with this place. Battersea is a combination of two power stations, Station A (Western side) was built in the early 1930s and completed fully in 1934. Demand lead to a second station joining the first on the eastern side, after a national naming competition, Station B was chosen as the name. Completed in 1953. Theo J. Halliday was the original architect and responsible for the Art Deco gloriousness still visible in Station A, particularly in the Control Room. You can see old photos here http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/?cat=131
The station is a London icon, and one most Londoners are proud of. Because of this it has had heavy preservation orders slapped on it over time. Various plans have come and gone, and the latest one is by Real Estate Opportunities. They will introduce a new energy plant there, along with commercial and residential schemes to revive the area. Along with the proposed American Embassy nearby, it’s likely to lead to an extension of the Northern Line.
As an icon, it has been used in lots of visual media. The most famous probably being the Pink Floyd Animals album cover. It also appeared in an early Hitchcock film, Sabotage [nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCp1J46Zfy0[/nomedia] (1m58s into clip). The Control Room A is seen in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life [nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlUu54muOs[/nomedia] And those Mod boys The Jam did a pop video for News of the World on the roof of Station B [nomedia]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epLYey3N7A[/nomedia]
On with the explore and pics…
1) Just in case you didn’t know what the place is like
2) Plans room
3) Plans of a different kind. Look carefully at the smaller photo, you can just see they had plans at one time for a white Eiffel Tower like structure.
4) It’s almost sad the way they’ve been trying to save the Station, with different plans over the years.
5) Wages window, with peely paint for its fans…
6) View from chimney scaffold over Station B lower roof
7) Station B stairwell
8) Station B top floor hall, it has a pulley system either side of a central block
9) I love the light through the windows on the wall in this. I know it’s not the greatest of shots.
10) Wide shot of Control Room B
11) It’s switchcraft I tell ya. Control Room B
12) C’est moi in Control Room B. Must have been some dirt on the lens or my face.
13) 3 of the 5 lovely art deco prints that are above Turbine Hall A
14) The unpleasant sight greeting those at the door of Control Room A. Counting the ripped out holes, this is the 5th padlock on there. Sadly some feel necessary to use force.
15) The structure on the western-most side of Station A
16) Using advanced miniature robot technology, I was able to get these Control Room A shots. This is the wide/establishing shot
17) Desk shot
18) The gorgeous ceiling
19) Scaring pigeons for a photo, looking from Station A roof across to Station B
20) Looking North to South along roof of Station A. Past visitors will notice white covers on the roof glass now.
21) Art Deco stairway around lift. Ground floor directors entrance, Station A
22) Directors Lift
23) Directors Lift. I love how the greeny coloured light comes through.
24) Service Tunnel. It's in the basement and leads to another section that goes around a corner with a layer of water. No idea how deep it was.
25) I’ll be leaving now
Hope this has been a good read/view. Please don’t post pics in any replies, it’s bandwidth heavy enough. I’ve numbered them should you want to quote.
If you’ve not had enough, there are another 12 pics here, I didn’t feel were needed for this. http://s144.photobucket.com/albums/r176/bukowski_jr/Batty%20Sea%20PS/
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