An early purpose-built undertaking to generate electricity from steam created by burning rubbish.
From Geograph: " The generated electricity powered street lights and some adjacent washhouses, since demolished. At its most efficient it consumed about 10 tons of rubbish per day."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Shoreditch Electricity Generating Station and Refuse Destructor
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Other Subjects
White Hart Dock
The origins of a dock and slipway can be traced back to the 14th century. The present retaining structure was built c.1868 as a parish dock when the Albert Embankment was constructed by the Metrop...
2 memorials
unidentified mill in Great Sutton Street
Where there are six millstones surely there must have been a mill?
1 memorial
Royal Docks' workers and their families
During the 126 years of its working life the Royal Docks, the largest enclosed docks in the world, must have employed a huge number of people.
1 memorial
Herbert Ashcombe Walker
Railway manager. Born Talbot Road, Paddington. London & South Western Railway General Manager 1911 - 1923. Southern Railway General Manager 1923 - 1937. Director 1937 - 1947. In charge of the d...
1 memorial
Samuel Courtauld
Industrialist and art collector. 1932 founded The Courtauld Institute of Art. Managed the family textile firm as a director from 1908, and as chair 1921-46. Served twice as chair of the Trustees ...
1 memorial
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