BBC - Tour of the old Battersea Power Station

So, instead of demolishing this cool old power station, they reworked it. While I don't give a fiddler's about the retail bits, I think the tour of the original power station control room is fascinating (about 1:15 into the video). Note the wink-wink code for Buckingham Palace.

I guess because I've done work in electrical generating stations, I find the old-style art deco meters and cabinets are just so cool. (And yes, I know what these things do, and what a power factor is. The things you pick up as a technical writer ...)

Anyway, thought you might like to have a look.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0llhr28/a-rare-look-inside-battersea-power-station-s-control-room

I first learned about it in this painting contest where they paint the construction process.

r ranson wrote:I first learned about it in this painting contest where they paint the construction process.

Ah, but when it came to the power station itself, did you agree with the winner?

The Battersea station has loomed large in my imagination ever since I discovered that it's the subject of the cover art on the first album I bought with my own money: Pink Floyd's Animals.

[edited to add] Of course they mention this in the video. But the thing that got me was seeing an ammeter with a scale that topped out at 8000.

8000 amps. None of them needed to go to 11.

Douglas Alpenstock wrote:

r ranson wrote:I first learned about it in this painting contest where they paint the construction process.

Ah, but when it came to the power station itself, did you agree with the winner?

For once, absolutely 100% agree. Seeing what she can do with ink is one of the reasons I started painting.   Still trying to figure out how many thousand more hours I need to put in before I am half as good as she,

r ranson wrote:

Douglas Alpenstock wrote:

r ranson wrote:I first learned about it in this painting contest where they paint the construction process.

Ah, but when it came to the power station itself, did you agree with the winner?

For once, absolutely 100% agree. Seeing what she can do with ink is one of the reasons I started painting.   Still trying to figure out how many thousand more hours I need to put in before I am half as good as she,

Her commissioned work was amazing. Didn't care much for her power station painting. But I'm a writer not a visual artist, so my opinion isn't worth a fiddler's.

BTW, Happy 15,000 apples. Fantastic.