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The power is switched back on in Battersea

BATTERSEA POWER STATION will open on October 14, 10 years after it was purchased by its current shareholders, more than 40 years after it was slated for demolition and 93 years after building work began under the watchful eyes of the indomitable Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Lead architect Jim Eyre is responsible for the Power Station’s latest iteration (at one point, Mr Eyre had more than 35 other architects

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