Battersea Power Station...
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Topic: Battersea Power Station...
Posted By: ANDREW
Subject: Battersea Power Station...
Date Posted: May 05 2006 at 15:20
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This power plant is really famous...
This is the cover of the album "Our World" of BLUE MINK, published in 1971, where we can glimpse the Battersea Power Station.
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 this is the same location (Battersea Power Station, London) of famous http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/pink_floyd - Pink Floyd 's http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/pink_floyd/animals/ - Animals album
PINK FLOYD: "Animals" (1977)
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 And the hard-prog band JUNIOR'S EYES entitled their first and only album (released in 1969) "Battersea Power Station", dedicated to the most famous power plant of London, which fed the Trident Studios, where that album was recorded.
Junior's Eyes:
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 05 2006 at 15:50
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I can't see any of those pictures Andrew. Yes, it is an iconic building and a major part of the South London landscape, although it's not a power station now. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 05 2006 at 18:16
| Another ex south bank power station is much more in the news nowadays, i.e. as The Tate Modern. There have been so many suggestions for the redundant Battersea Power Station in the last 20 years; I think the last was as an amusement park.... |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 05 2006 at 18:52
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Surely Battersea Power Station is the Tate Modern? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 05 2006 at 21:31
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here is the Tate Modern:    and now is the battersea:
man! you are lucky to have tons of captivating & symbolic buildings like that!
in Quebec city, we have a mere replica, much less impressive: the Reed Paper building:
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 07:05
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Battersea Power station also crops up on some of The Orb's album covers, including their excellent debut Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and Live 93. This is partly because Orb mainman Alex Patterson is a lifelong resident of South London and is also a kind of hommage to Pink Floyd.
The Tate Modern is housed in and old power station, but not Battersea power station, which is a couple of miles away and is still disused. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 07:19
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^ All these years i have been under a misapprehension! How could get it so wrong? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 07:36
You're not the only one Snow Dog - it seems to be a pretty common misconception. Given that most people know that the Tate Modern is built in an old power station in South London, and Battersea Power Station is a famous South London landmark, it's a logical enough assumption. Some Japanese tourists I met a few months back were actually quite disappointed that the Tate Modern looked nothing like the cover of Animals. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 07:54
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Battersea is plainly visible from the train coming from Canterbury and Paris. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 10:28
^ I always marvel at it when I'm coming into London to visit friends on the train too. It is such an iconic building and it always makes me smile when I see it. If I'm travelling with someone else they always look at me when we pass it, waiting for me to make some prog or Orb reference. I can be very predictable!  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 14:21
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For some reasons I remember getting a better view with the standard trains of the early 90's than on the Eurostar TGV, >> which I find weird since the Eurostar is not on its proper site and uses normal tracks
Or is it?
 Because the old trains were ending in Waterloo and the new Eurostar is ending in Victoria >> maybe that is why I found the view different last January then I remembered it from my early 90's trip >> not using the same tracks, maybe? ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 17:45
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And when the Channel Tunnel Terminus in London shifts to StPancras, then the train won't go pased BAtteresea Power Sattion. Battersea is up the west end of London on the Thames' south bank, the Tate Modern is opposite the City of London on the south bank, and one end of the Millenium Foot Bridge. BTW the South Bank Art Complex (including Queen Elizabeth Hall - venue for several live prog recordings, and home of the annual Meltdown Festival) is about halfway between the two former power station, outside Waterloo Station. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 06 2006 at 17:57
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It's amazing what one can learn on PA! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 06:23
Not sure Sean. I've not used the 'Chunnel' yet, but the Eurostar still terminates at Waterloo, not Victoria. I thought Waterloo was the only UK terminus for this train. The Eurostar probably joins the line further on from where the optimum view of BPS is. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 07:19
Victoria and Waterloo >> I always them mixed up
The old trains used to crossed the Thames on the right banks where the Eurostar does not ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 12:49
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It's a Grade 2 listed building, i.e. protected from demolition or alteration without government approval. Personally, I think Battersea Power Station is an eyesore and should be demolished. Ugly as sin. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 14:13
What a disgraceful point of view for a prog fan!  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 14:22
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I think its a great iconic building ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 01:02
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i always found the pic on animals so impressive! i was listening animals while wondering how it was inside: i was feeling lke a punk wanting to squat the building!
look at those pics:
    i particularly like this one:
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 01:20
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montreal has TONS of abandoned buildings: here are some interesting pics:
      the most impressive one: the grain elevator #2:
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 03:16
Heresy! Burn the non-believer! ------------- 
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 06:08
LOL. And I don't like "Animals" much either. 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 06:12
1952.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 06:14
1931. Part built.
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 14:41
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grrr...i hatec those tripod things... ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 09 2006 at 01:56
the same photo nowadays showing the turbines hall:
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: May 09 2006 at 02:01
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This is our "buttersea ex-church station"
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 09 2006 at 06:07
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Excellent pics
Thanks GB  ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |