General view from SSW showing complex
SC 793883
Description General view from SSW showing complex
Date 1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 793883
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Kincardine Power Station, Kincardine on Forth, Fife, from south-south-west This view from the south-south-west, taken in 1979, shows the boiler house of the power station, with its twin reinforced concrete chimneys. The interlocking cubic forms of the building are typical of the 'modern movement' in design popular at the time. On the left is a pier leading to the cooling water intake in the River Forth. In its early years this station produced a third of all the electricity used in Scotland. It had a short active life, as it was supplanted by the nearby Longannet station, opened in 1973, which had lower operating costs. Kincardine was then mothballed, but was eventually demolished in about 2001. This power station was built to the west of the town of Kincardine on Forth in 1955-60 by the South of Scotland Electricity Board, which had inherited the project from the British Electricity Authority, which had initiated it in 1952. It was designed to burn local coal with a high ash content. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CTH161
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