Central Electricity Generating Board ; South Eastern Division : Croydon Power Station : brochure, c1970 : turbine hall
A descriptive brochure issued by the CEGB, the then nationalised electricity generation authority for England & Wales. It describes the Croydon Power Station, situated in the London Borough of that name - or rather Croydon "B" generating station as when this brochure was written the much older Croydon "A" station was still extant and capable of generation although this was 'rarely called upon'.
The huge brick clad (in Ravenhead rustic facings), steel framed construction that with the two 90m high brick chimneys (constructed from over 3,000,000 bricks) was a local landmark and had first generated electricity to the Grid in September 1950. However planning and design had begun before the War and it was originally the scheme of the local municipal undertaking that of the County Borough of Croydon. Work had started in 1939 but was suspended until 1946 when work commenced. In 1948 the supply and generation industry was nationalised and so the British Electricity Authority, forerunner of the CEGB, completed the works.
The station had eight Simon-Carves boilers supplying four Metropolitan-Vickers turbo-generators with an output of 210,000kw and they are seen here in this splendid image of the Turbine Hall. Coal was supplied by rail. The station was extended in 1962 - 1965 when two gas turbine generators were added, powered by eight Bristol-Siddeley Olympus engines. Cooling water for the whole station was partially supplied, given Croydon's lack of a major watercourse, by treated effluent from the council's Beddington sewage works.
The station was decommissioned in 1984 and demolished in 1991 - however the two chimneys were retained as landmarks and form part of the massive IKEA store that was constructed on the site.
Central Electricity Generating Board ; South Eastern Division : Croydon Power Station : brochure, c1970 : turbine hall
A descriptive brochure issued by the CEGB, the then nationalised electricity generation authority for England & Wales. It describes the Croydon Power Station, situated in the London Borough of that name - or rather Croydon "B" generating station as when this brochure was written the much older Croydon "A" station was still extant and capable of generation although this was 'rarely called upon'.
The huge brick clad (in Ravenhead rustic facings), steel framed construction that with the two 90m high brick chimneys (constructed from over 3,000,000 bricks) was a local landmark and had first generated electricity to the Grid in September 1950. However planning and design had begun before the War and it was originally the scheme of the local municipal undertaking that of the County Borough of Croydon. Work had started in 1939 but was suspended until 1946 when work commenced. In 1948 the supply and generation industry was nationalised and so the British Electricity Authority, forerunner of the CEGB, completed the works.
The station had eight Simon-Carves boilers supplying four Metropolitan-Vickers turbo-generators with an output of 210,000kw and they are seen here in this splendid image of the Turbine Hall. Coal was supplied by rail. The station was extended in 1962 - 1965 when two gas turbine generators were added, powered by eight Bristol-Siddeley Olympus engines. Cooling water for the whole station was partially supplied, given Croydon's lack of a major watercourse, by treated effluent from the council's Beddington sewage works.
The station was decommissioned in 1984 and demolished in 1991 - however the two chimneys were retained as landmarks and form part of the massive IKEA store that was constructed on the site.