Battersea Power Station

Alton Towers 1988 promotional video

February 1, 2007, 9:38 pm

Thought I’d point people towards the great 1988 Alton Towers promotional video that I posted to YouTube a couple of weeks ago. Not only is it entertaining in a retro old tourist attraction kind of way (with amusing English voiceover), but it has a mention of their Battersea Power Station project at the end – [...]

Battersea Power Station sold

November 30, 2006, 7:14 pm

I wrote a few weeks ago about Battersea Power Station being open for visitors, and mentioned some of the plans for its future. Today it has been announced that the site has been sold for £400 million to an Irish developer. It wasn’t difficult to see this coming, the previous Chinese developer had spent a [...]

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Every morning, at around 9:20AM, and then at some time in the early evening, I stare out of my train window at the great Battersea Power Station, which lies right next to the train line on the route into Victoria Station. It’s one of the few highlights of my short commute, second only to the [...]