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Battersea Powerstation
Posted by Michael (Wuppertal, Germany) on 18 June 2008 in Cityscape & Urban.
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Battersea Powerstation is a defunct power station that was the first in a series of large coal-fired electrical generating facilities set up in England as part of the National Grid power distribution system then being introduced. The first part of the structure was built in 1939, and the station ceased electricity-generation in 1983. Since then the site has remained largely unused, with numerous failed redevelopment plans from successive site owners. The building is the largest brick-built structure in Europe and is notable for its original and lavish Art Deco fittings and decor. The station famously appears in The Beatles' 1965 Help! movie (with a graphic identifying it as "a famous power station") and on the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals.
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Olympus E-500
1/250 second
F/8.0
ISO 100
45 mm
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