Links

Here are a few links to sites that have some power station information. If you know of any other sites that we should have here then do let us know.

The Electricity History Society

They are the home of the Western Power Electricity Historical Society. They have an archive and museum in Bristol and are developing a Visitors Centre. 

Historic England

Historic England  covers research into coal and oil-fired power stations as they are decommissioned, including best practice on documenting them for the historical record.

Drakelow Power Station Revisited 

This is a facebook site with followers contributing with news and photos

Footage from their 2019 infiltration of the defunct Eggborough Power Station which ceased operating in 2018. At the time, the plant was complete with a 60s control room, turbine hall, boiler house, cooling towers and chimney all still standing, which is no longer the case anymore.

‘High Merit’: Existing English Post-War Coal and Oil-Fired Power Stations in Context

Report published in 2017 by Historic England and written by Jonathan Clarke.  This report places power stations into their historical, technological and engineering context.  This research was originally commissioned as scoping work for the National Heritage Protection Plan’s Responsive Designation activity.

Ted Krupa worked at Staythorpe and was a well-known charactor

Ted was from Poland and worked at Staythorpe.

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