Twelve extra boilers by Babcock & Wilcox were installed to drive the new engines.

[1] In 1920, the power station was, with Liverpool Docks, a target for an IRA plot involving its destruction.

[4] In 1934, a modernisation programme began which involved practically rebuilding the whole of the site.

After the Second World War, an additional Metropolitan-Vickers, 60,000 kW turbo-alternator, generating at 33,000V was installed along with two large John Thompson boilers.

The new boilers were amongst the largest that had hitherto been constructed in the UK and had to be housed in a new building along with the electrostatic precipitators that removed particulates from the flue gases.

In 1971 the boilers had a combined steam generating capacity of 1.94 million pounds per hour (538.9 kg/s).

[14] The station was demolished by MJ Finnigan & Co.[15] The area has been redeveloped and the site is now the location of the Manchester Velodrome.