Greenwich Power Station
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Greenwich Power Station was originally fired by coal delivered to the huge adjacent coaling jetty, thence to the ugly white-painted bunkers on the west side of the Station. It was originally designed by the London County Council (LCC) architects department, and built between 1906 and 1910, to provide power for the London Tram network. It then became the backup Station for Lots Road Power Station which supplied the London Underground. However, Lots Road was decommissioned on 21 October 2002, whereas Greenwich has been refurbished, and is now powered by gas. London Underground power now normally comes direct from the National Grid.
A New Statesman Arts Diary story on July 7th 2006 suggested the power station as a possible site for a Museum of the Performing Arts, incorporating some of the collection of the defunct Museum of the Moving Image as well as London's Museum of Performance.
