B/W print; exterior of Lots Road Power Station, Chelsea, by Topical Press, 1923
Main details
| Reference number | 1999/12396 |
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| Description | Exterior of Lots Road Power Station. |
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| Dates | 1 Jun 1923 |
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| Photograph number | U1824 |
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| Completeness | 70% |
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Physical description
Dimensions Attribute Value Height mmWidth mmItem content Attribute Value Annotation CHELSEA: THE LOTS IN 1923, SHOWING THE UNDERGROUND POWER HOUSE.
Chelsea Creek is between the Power House and the earthbank in the foreground.
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, who lived at the estate here that became Cremorne, sent missionaries to America. In later times America sent missionaries - missionaries of railway electrification, Messrs. Yerkes and Chapman - to England, and the power house by the site of Cremorne is their monument. Curious, too! that Cremorne once belonged to descendants of Penn.
Photograph by Topical Press, May, 1923. Underground copyright.
THE COUNTERS BROOK
This stream had its rise at Kensal Green and flowed down across the Uxbridge Road, through Hammersmith and Fulham to the Thames at Chelsea Creek. The stream had considerable topographical significance, for the line of its course is to-day the boundary between Kensington and Hammersmith, Kensington and Fulham, and Fulham and Chelsea.
In 1826 the section of the brook between the Creek and the northern end of what is now Warwick Road was formed into a canal, and as the Kenington Canal it thus existed until the 'fifties, when it was acquired by the West London Railway Company, who at first worked it as a canal and subsequently drained it and carried their line through the old bed of the canal. The section of the brook north of the canal had previously been formed into a sewer by the Railway Company when they constructed their line along its course.
THE BROOK BUBBLES UP AT SHEPHERD'S BUSH. In 1924, during the installation of escalators at Shepherd's Bush Underground Station, the engineers were caused considerable trouble through the waters of the Counter's Brook percolating into the works in the lower levels of the station. The water had a rise and fall of seven inches, indicating tidal influence. Between Shepherd's Bush and the Thames there is a stratum of gravel.Design Attribute Value Shot Medium exterior -
People involved
Role Person(s) involved Photographer Topical Press, 1 Jun 1923 -
Associated companies, people and places
Places Location Lots Road, Chelsea, Kensington & Chelsea, SW10People Attribute Value People Charles White -