Nottingham Corporation Electricity Department

[7] The rapid increase in demand for electricity occasioned by the electrification of Nottingham Corporation Tramways led to the construction of the second power station at St. Ann's Well Road.

Both the Talbot Street and St Ann's Well Road power stations were designed by Arthur Brown, the Nottingham City Engineer.

To improve efficiency and meet increasing demand a temporary power station was opened in North Wilford on the bank of the River Trent in 1922 which had a free supply of condensing water, and was close to Clifton Colliery.

Wilford Power Station, designed by the Nottingham City Engineer, T. Wallis Gordon, replaced it in 1925, at which time the demand for electricity was 12,722 kilowatts.

[12] In 1927 the chimneys on the Talbot Street Power Station were removed and the building was converted to be a sub-station for the supply from Wilford.