Archaeology Notes

Event ID 842822

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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Power Station [NAT]

OS 1:1250 map, 1973.

Pinkston Power Station, built 1900-1 for the electrification of the Corporation tramways. Harry B Measures, engineer, London (£100,000). An interesting red brick structure, with high single-storey, 7-bay boiler house and engine halls side by side, and originally identical. The windows are round-headed with semicircular windows above and the wall tops are waved. Pilasters divide the bays, and are extended above the cornice, terminating in small pediments.

At the north end are two large brick chimneys with ornamental tops. The cooling tower, built 1952-4, was at the time of construction the largest in Europe.

J R Hume 1974.