Limehouse Power Station in Northey Street
Limehouse Power Station in Northey Street
Record No
119329
Title
Limehouse Power Station in Northey Street
Description
Looking west towards Limehouse Power Station (aka Stepney power station), Northey Street, Limehouse. On the left is the perimeter wall of the Barley Mow Taylor Walker brewery. The building in the background, on the right behind the cleft wood fencing, is a school and looming above that is a high-level gantry for transporting coal from the Limehouse Cut canal to the power station. The coal-fired power station was situated in the area bounded by Northey Street to the north, Brightlingsea Place to the east, the Blyth Wharf part of Narrow Street to the south and Shoulder of Mutton Alley to the west. It was commissioned in 1907, decommissioned in 1972 and demolished. The single chimney shown in the photo was built in 1927 to replace others because of complaints of pollution and it was the tallest chimney stack in London at 351 ft. Behind the power station is the Limehouse Board Mill, founded by Roger Hough on Blyths Wharf and land to the north of it in 1912. The mill recycled paper to make boards and moved out of Limehouse in 1986 during redevelopment of the area. Looming above that is a high-level gantry for transporting coal from the Limehouse Cut canal to the power station and behind that a chimney belonging to the Paperboard Mills. The foreground area has been redeveloped as the Barleymow social housing estate and Ropemakers Field public park and the power station site has been redeveloped as residential flats.
Date of execution
1965
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_395_65_4163
London picture map location
Exact
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