08.02.2009, 07:57
This site http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/elec ... ation.html has pictures of the Exeter power station which was working during WW2. Because the industry wasn't nationalised until 1947 I think that most of the power stations would have been along these lines - fairly small and all different. What we now think of as the classic coal-fired stations, Battersea, Bankside, Shoreham etc were all post-war; with the exception of Battersea of course which was the first of the new breed and only half-finished during the early forties.
A pithead for coal mines is a must - there were four in Kent and plenty in northern France and Belgium.
Also how about this? This could be a use for your bunker above. This is the eastern arm of Dover harbour. There was an aerial ropeway bringng coal from Tilmanstone colliery, down through a tunnel and on to the harbour wall.
![[Image: ropeway_1.jpg]](http://premium1.uploadit.org/igmusapa//ropeway_1.jpg)
![[Image: ropeway_3.jpg]](http://premium1.uploadit.org/igmusapa//ropeway_3.jpg)
![[Image: ropeway_2.jpg]](http://premium1.uploadit.org/igmusapa//ropeway_2.jpg)
:cheers:
A pithead for coal mines is a must - there were four in Kent and plenty in northern France and Belgium.
Also how about this? This could be a use for your bunker above. This is the eastern arm of Dover harbour. There was an aerial ropeway bringng coal from Tilmanstone colliery, down through a tunnel and on to the harbour wall.
:cheers: