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I worked at the Battersea power station site a few years ago, the site was the venue for two weeks of concerts. I spent a day exploring the interior of the power station its amazing and strangely beautiful,especially the amazing control room with the brass knobs and old gauges is a steam punk dream. will try and find the pics i took.
Battersea Power Station is an iconic piece of Art Deco architecture, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, and as such should be restored and preserved. There is a group dedicated to doing just this, and it can't come quick enough for me.
I love the steampunk look of some of these places! They should be preserved as examples of industrial architecture.
It would be good for a low-budget film like Cube
Some fantastic photos and info there - especially the images of Battersea Power Station. Can't believe that tank, how random is that?! I guess it must be left over from Full Metal Jacket... I've been past BPS so many times on the train and am always impressed. Great to see sime pics of the inside though. Looking forward to the redevelopment but hopefully it won't lose too much of its mystery in the process.
More significant than Pink Floyd or Full metal Jacket, Battersea was used to fill several of the scenes in McGyver the Movie.
If you want to see what an old powerstation can become have a look at this. apologies, i think it is only in German...
As publicity for the Simpsons movie, the version of the pig from the animated movie was floated in front of this station in the same place Pink Floyd's pig was. Photos are probably still around the internet.
hmm. high voltage insulators. good for a collector.thats a place to go insulator hunting.
Abandoned Mystery Site (What Could This Be in the Caucasas Mountains near Kislovodsk, Russia
It is a prototype of a radar tracking tower! Love you Site some great forgotten stuff on it!!!
The Tank you see was part of an exhibition, I went to it as it made Battersea PS open to the public and always wanted to see it. From inside its very big and empty, Thatcher let the vulchers in and they stripped the place for its metal during the 1980s I'm sorry to say (that would never have happened in France!).
If anybody else went to see the exhibition do you recall the wall of Apples? It was slowly decomposing, a great piece. I also got a recording of the video playing. Oh and there was a penny machine which took pennies and you put them in and turn the machine crank with a handle, they would come out flattened with a logo on them - I still got mine. At the time it was of the shopping centre complex to be invested in by a Chinese firm, but they pulled out.
Battersea PS was also used as a location in the 1995 film, "Richard III".
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