Battersea Power Station

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Battersea Power Station is a former power station and an Underground station on the Northern Line.

Battersea Power Station is a major Lodon landmark and is a decommissioned coal-fired power station, located on the south bank of the River Thames.

It was built by the London Power Company to Art Deco designed by J. Theo Halliday and Giles Gilbert Scott. The station is one of the world’s largest brick buildings.

Battersea Power Station comprised two power stations, built in two stages, in a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built between 1929 and 1935 and Battersea B Power Station, to its east, between 1937 and 1941. Due to the intervening Second World War, the building was finally completed in 1955.

In 1980 the whole structure was given Grade II listed status and the power station shut three years later.

The building remained empty until 2014, during which time it fell into near ruin. Various plans were made to make use of the building, but none were successful.

In 1983 the Central Electricity Generating Board held a competition for ideas on the redevelopment of the site. It was won by a consortium led by developer David Roche who proposed an indoor theme park, with shops and restaurants. The scheme received planning approval in May 1986 and work on converting the site began the same year. The project was halted in March 1989, for lack of funding. By this point huge sections of the building's roof had been removed, so that machinery could be taken out. Without a roof, the building's steel framework had been left exposed and its foundations were prone to flooding.

In March 1990, the proposal was changed to a mixture of offices, shops and a hotel. This proposal was granted planning permission in August 1990, despite opposition from English Heritage. Despite permission being granted, no further work took place on the site between 1990 and 1993.

In 1993, the site and its outstanding debt of £70 million were bought from the Bank of America by Hong Kong-based development company, Parkview International, for £10 million. In November 1996 plans for the redevelopment of the site were submitted and outline consent was received in May 1997. Having purchased the site, Parkview started work on a £1.1 billion project to restore the building and to redevelop the site into a retail, housing and leisure complex.




In 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 €532 million.

REO announced that the previous plan by Parkview had been dropped and devised a new plan. The centrepiece of this masterplan was an eco tower that dwarfed the power station and was described by London's then mayor Boris Johnson as an "inverted toilet-roll holder". The tower was quickly dropped from the scheme.

In November 2011, the REO scheme collapsed into administration.[

In 2012, administrators Ernst & Young entered into an agreement with Malaysia’s SP Setia and Sime Darby to develop the site to include 253 residential units, bars, restaurants, office space, shops and entertainment spaces. The plans were approved and redevelopment commenced a few years later.

Battersea Power Station - the London Underground station - forms the terminus of the Northern line extension to Battersea.

Partially funded by the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, the station is located on Battersea Park Road, close to Battersea Park railway station and a short walking distance from Queenstown Road (Battersea) railway station. The line and station opened on 20 September 2021.




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Wendy    
Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT   

Polygon Buildings
Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings.

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT   

Road construction and houses completed
New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only.

Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT   

Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS)
One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc.

I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Charles   
Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT   

My House
I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s.

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NH   
Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT   

Telephone House
Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000

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Paul Cox   
Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT   

War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street
Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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Diana   
Added: 28 Feb 2024 13:52 GMT   

New Inn Yard, E1
My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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Vic Stanley   
Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT   

Postcose
The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Battersea Power Station Battersea Power Station is a former power station and an Underground station on the Northern Line.

NEARBY STREETS
Aegis Grove, SW8 Aegis Grove was a street in Battersea New Town (Battersea Power Station)
Aegis House, SW8 Aegis House was a short-lived tower block on the Savona Estate (Battersea Power Station)
Arches Lane, SW11 Arches Lane runs beside the tracks at the southern end of the Grosvenor Bridge (Battersea Power Station)
Ascalon House, SW8 Ascalon House was built as part of the Savona Estate in 1938 (Battersea Power Station)
Battersea Park Road, SW8 A short section of Battersea Park Road is in the SW8 postal area (Battersea Power Station)
Bradmead, SW8 Bradmead is a modern road near to the Battersea Power Station development (Battersea Power Station)
Ceylon Street, SW8 Ceylon Street was built between 1862 and 1870 (Battersea Power Station)
Circus Road West, SW8 A street within the SW8 postcode (Battersea Power Station)
Circus West / Scott House, SW11 Circus West / Scott House is a block on Circus Road West (Battersea Power Station)
Cringle Street, SW8 Cringle Street is one of the streets of London in the SW8 postal area (Battersea Power Station)
Distribution Block, SW8 Distribution Block is a location in London (Battersea Power Station)
Edward Foster Court, SW8 Edward Foster Court is a block on Stewarts Road (Battersea Power Station)
Foote’s Row, SW8 Foote’s Row - also Foot’s Row - existed from the original layout of Battersea New Town, until the 1960s (Battersea Power Station)
Palmerston Court, SW8 Palmerston Court is a block on Palmerston Way (Battersea Power Station)
Savona Place, SW8 York Mews became Savona Place in 1880 (Battersea Power Station)
Savona Street, SW8 Savona Street is a road in the Battersea Power Station area (Battersea Power Station)
Seldon House, SW8 Seldon House was built as part of the Savona Estate in 1938 (Battersea Power Station)
Seldon Street, SW8 Seldon Street disappeared under the first blocks of the Savona Estate in the 1930s (Battersea Power Station)
Sleaford Industrial Estate, SW8 Commercial area (Battersea Power Station)
Sleaford Street, SW8 Sleaford Street is virtually the last of the surviving streets of Battersea New Town (Battersea Power Station)
The Pavilion, SW8 The Pavilion is one of the streets of London in the SW8 postal area (Battersea Power Station)
Thessaly House, SW8 Thessaly House is a block on Thessaly Road - built in 1938 (Battersea Power Station)
Thessaly Road, SW8 Starting life as simply "New Street", Thessaly Road dates from the 1860s or before (Battersea Power Station)
Tidemore Street, SW8 Sheldrake Street was renamed Tidemore Street in 1891 (Battersea Power Station)
Tideway Walk, SW8 A street within the SW8 postcode (Battersea Power Station)
Village Courtyard, SW8 A street within the SW11 postcode (Battersea Power Station)
Viridian Buildings, SW8 Viridian Buildings is a location in London (Battersea Power Station)
Wenham House, SW8 Wenham House - built in 1938 - was formerly known as Tideway House (Battersea Power Station)
York Mews, SW8 York Mews became Savona Place in 1880 (Battersea Power Station)

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Battersea Power Station from the River Thames (2012)
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Battersea Park Road looking westwards from the junction with Queenstown Road
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Queenstown Road looking north towards Battersea Power Station (2012) With the reconstruction of the power station and the demolition of the gasholder, this view has changed dramatically since.
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Map of Battersea New Town (1829) From the 1790s, the "New Town" of Battersea started to emerge just west of Nine Elms, with the aim of developing an urban but middle-class district here, amidst the fields. But progress was fragmented due to the various landowners and builders. Working-class terraces gradually filled the gaps between industrial sites.
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View of Aegis House (on left) with Battersea Power Station in background
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Battersea Power Station
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