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Berkeley protests against police brutality in response to Ferguson and Eric Garner decision - 12/6/2014
Escape From Berkeley Vehicle Showcase Party
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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Decommissioning began at Berkeley Power Station in 1989 when Reactor number one was shutdown, making it the first commercial nuclear power station to be decommissioned in the United Kingdom. Berkeley was highly important as the technical laboratories on site supported developments in all the power stations across the country, whilst assuring all nuclear provision was safe and up to an acceptable standard.
Eighteen months ago South Gloucestershire & Stroud College took interest in the site and today a new campus is being built for engineering and information technology students, hinged from the needs of industry. The aim being for the whole site to be eventually turned into a science park.
Photographing Berkeley Nuclear Power Station has allowed me identify and understand the previous uses of each of the buildings contained on the twenty- acre site. Over multiple visits I have been able to develop my approach of illustrating the vacated buildings, showing the locations in which two thousand employees once operated and managed the Power Station.
The rear of this building was the site of the Berkeley Free Church, which existed from 1967-72. The now walled-over door was the entrance to the church.