West Ham Power Station

West Ham Power Station was a coal-fired power station on Bow Creek (the tidal mouth of the River Lea) at Canning Town, in east London.

The station was extended several times between 1904 and 1930, making West Ham one of the largest municipal electricity suppliers in London.

The station ran for 696 hours in 1961 and gave an output of 5.91 GWh, and had a thermal efficiency of 8.21 per cent.

This had two prominent concrete cooling towers each with a capacity of 2.8 million gallons per hour (3.54 m3/s).

[8] The railway sidings linked to the North London Line at Stephenson Street.

[8][7][3][4] West Ham B annual electricity output GWh.On 28 June 1966 the temporary scaffolding in one of the cooling towers collapsed, killing a worker.

[11] It was subsequently demolished, and the site of the power station is now occupied by the Electra Business Park.

The power station seen from the Lea in 1904.