Looking back: Battersea’s first ‘power station’
Battersea Power Station once generated 20 per cent of London’s electricity, but it was not the first power-producing landmark on the waterfront. That honour goes to the extraordinary Horizontal Windmill, erected in 1788 next to St Mary’s, the parish church for Nine Elms and Battersea situated on today’s Thames Path, as Battersea Society describes. Harnessing […]
Type: Feature Article