Central Power House (Hanley) supplied electricity to the county borough and later city of Stoke-on-Trent, England and the surrounding area from the 10th April 1913 to the 1960s.

[6] Central Power House was the main Electricity Works, and the Hanley, Longton, Burslem and Stoke-upon-Trent sites were referred to as ‘Sub-Works’.

The Longton, Burslem & Stoke-upon-Trent Sub-Works were later used as conversion stations during the transitioning period of DC to AC electricity supplies.

[citation needed] In 1923 the generating stations and their plant comprised:[7] 2 × 3 MW turbines 1 × 0.6 MW turbine The following types of electric current were available to consumers:[7] By 1955 the plant at Stoke-on-Trent power station comprised:[6] The boilers had a total evaporative capacity of 360,000 lb/h (45.36 kg/s), and operated at 275 psi and 660°F (19.0 bar at 349°C), steam was supplied to:[6] The total installed generating capacity was 31 MW Condenser cooling water was cooled in seven Davenport wood cooling towers with a capacity of 1.783 million gallons per hour (8,106 m3/h).

[6][8] The operating data for Stoke-on-Trent power station in the period 1921–23 was:[7] Under the terms of the Electricity (Supply) Act 1926 (16 & 17 Geo.

[11] The North West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority (JEA) assumed ownership of the Stoke and Stafford undertakings in 1928.

[12] The JEA generated electricity which was purchased by the Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford corporations and sold to industrial, commercial and domestic consumers.

In the city centre slums and outlying working class suburbs of towns such as Stoke-on-Trent more than a quarter of the streets had no electricity service available.