Battersea Power Station
Books
- Five Days Without Sky London, 1952, and the Fog That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On December 5, 1952, an anticyclone trapped the smoke of a million coal fires over London. For five days, visibility fell to mere feet.
- The City of a Million Fires…d to individual frailty rather than collective exposure. The system had absorbed the slaughter of many a great battle and called it nature. Battersea Power Station dominated the south bank of the Thames with the assertive geometry of industrial purpose. Its four chimneys, each three hundred and thirty-…
- The High-Pressure Dome…each its postwar peak, and the dirtiest grades would find their largest market in the cities where the poor burned what they were given. At Battersea Power Station, on the south bank of the Thames, the four chimneys discharged their plume into air that could not receive it. The station burned 600 tons…
- The Chimneys of Battersea (5 December 1952, Afternoon)…y impossible. By four o’clock, the fog had achieved a density that began to disrupt the operational assumptions of the transport system. At Battersea Power Station, the river traffic had slowed to a crawl, the barges navigating by fog signals and the accumulated memory of pilots who knew the Thames by…