Brunswick Wharf Power Station
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  Brunswick Wharf Power Station shown within Greater London |
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| Operator: | Central Electricity Board |
| Fuel: | Coal-fired 328MW |
| Commissioned: | 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 1984 |
Brunswick Wharf Power Station was a coal fired power station on the Thames in Blackwall, London. It was built by Poplar Borough Council for the Central Electricity Board.
The site was controversial due both to potential air pollution in a densely populated part of London, and to the strategic implications of a further concentration of generating capacity in the light of the experiences of the blitz.
The station was built in stages between 1946 and 1956 on the site of the former East India Export Dock, itself originally the Brunswick Dock of the Blackwall Yard shipyard. It was a monumental brick structure with fluted concrete chimneys after the style of Gilbert Scott's design for Battersea. Originally coal fired, it was converted to oil in 1970. It ceased generation in 1984 and was demolished in the late 1980s. The switchgear house survived longer but was later redeveloped.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ 'Brunswick Wharf', Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs (1994), pp. 593-600. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46538. Date accessed: 02 November 2007.
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