Power Station, Ilkeston, Derbyshire

Photograph taken June 1992 © Historic England Archive ref: bb93_29355

This power station was built in 1903 for the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Power Company. It was only the fourth steam generating power station to be built in the country for a company to provide commercial electricity.

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Derbyshire Ilkeston

Period

Edwardian (1902 - 1913)

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Battersea Power Station seen from the north bank of the Thames. It was designed in 1937 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and was the largest brick building in Europe.

Power Station, Ilkeston, Derbyshire

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