Thorpe Marsh Power Station April'11

KelseyRebecca98 · Apr 7, 2011

Bit of info from Wiki.

Construction of the station began in 1959, it being built as a prototype for all the large modern power stations in the UK. It was commissioned between 1963 and 1965. It contained 2 generating sets powered by coal, and had a gas turbine set using an industrial static version of a Rolls-Royce Avon aero engine with a capacity of 14.9 MW. The station closed a few years later in 1994.

Now on with the pics..

Chimneys by KelseyRebecca98

Inside the controls by KelseyRebecca98

Digger by KelseyRebecca98

Inside one of the buildings by KelseyRebecca98

Bendy metal by KelseyRebecca98

Lable from control by KelseyRebecca98

Ladders by KelseyRebecca98

Skeleton by KelseyRebecca98

Old coal railway by KelseyRebecca98

Skeleton by KelseyRebecca98

The old railway by KelseyRebecca98

Pipe by KelseyRebecca98

Skeleton by KelseyRebecca98

Chimneys by KelseyRebecca98

Offices by KelseyRebecca98

Chimneys by KelseyRebecca98

Skeleton underneath by KelseyRebecca98

Inside the chimney again by KelseyRebecca98

Bottom of chimney by KelseyRebecca98

One of chimneys by KelseyRebecca98

Looking up by KelseyRebecca98

HURRY UP AND GET HERE AS IS READY FOR KNOCKING DOWN SOON!

Thanks for looking

This place may not look much but when you get there its pretty amazing
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King Al · Apr 7, 2011

Nice one KR! great pics

klempner69 · Apr 7, 2011

This is really good KelseyR and the digger shot is spot on.

Badoosh · Apr 7, 2011

Some lovely shots there. I really enjoyed this site & had great fun with the acoustics inside the towers. I didn't think they were going to demo the towers due to being close to the river banks. May have to pay these a farewell visit when I'm in the area next.

KelseyRebecca98 · Apr 7, 2011

Badoosh said:
Some lovely shots there. I really enjoyed this site & had great fun with the acoustics inside the towers. I didn't think they were going to demo the towers due to being close to the river banks. May have to pay these a farewell visit when I'm in the area next.

I may be wrong about it being demolished but while we was there an old man came up and said there are knocking them down later this month and then we got told the same by someone els over the internet.