Poplar Electric Generating Station
1893 Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council received its Electric Lighting Order.
1900 Commenced supply from generating stations at Glaucus Street and Watts Grove, Bromley by Bow.
1924 'A VICKERS’ CONTRACT. In connection with the power station extensions contract, recently placed by the Poplar Borough Council, with Vickers and International Combustion Engineering, Limited, as main contractors, we learn that the condensing plant for 10,000 k.w. turbo-alternator is to be the well-known contraflo high-vacuum design, supplied by Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness.'[1]
1927 Pulverized Coal Plant supplied by International Combustion Engineering Co.
1947 New power station to be constructed at Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, for Poplar Borough Council, on the site of the East India Export Dock. Brunswick Wharf would disappear and colliers up to 8000 tons would be accommodated on the river frontage of the new station[2]. See Brunswick Wharf Power Station.
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Sources of Information
- [1] National Archives.