Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Bromborough Power Station

From Graces Guide

A 210 MW coal-fired station, later converted to burn oil.

1948 Construction started on a site adjacent to the River Mersey for the British Electricity Authority

It had 8 Babcock and Wilcox coal-fired boilers and 4 English Electric 52.5 MW turbo-alternators, with hydrogen cooled alternators generating electricity at 11 kV.

1951 The first machine was commissioned; further sets were commissioned at intervals up to December 1952.

Soon after commissioning the boilers were converted to oil-firing in accordance with government policy to take advantage of differential prices between coal and oil.

1980 Bromborough power station was closed and demolished in 1986.

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