Agecroft Power Station

Agecroft Power Station

Infobox UK power station
static_

static_image_caption= Agecroft Power Station in September 1985.
os_grid_reference=SD800021
latitude=53.515401
longitude=-2.300896
country=England
region=North West
shire_county= Salford
operator= Central Electricity Generating Board
fuel= Coal-fired
fuel_capacity=
opened=1925
closed=1992

Agecroft Power Station was a coal-fired power station on the eastern bank of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, North West England. It was formally opened by Alderman G. Billington, the Mayor of Salford on Wednesday 3 September 1925. [Citation
title = The development of electricity
newspaper = The Times
pages = 7
year = 1925
date = September 4 1925
url = http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?toDate=1985-12-31&fromDate=1785-01-01&currentPageNumber=3&resultsPerPage=10&sortBy=default&offset=0&viewName=&addFilters=&removeFilters=&addCat=&queryKeywords=manchester+bolton+and+bury+canal&sectionId=1040&currPgSmartSet=1&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1925-09-24-07&articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1925-09-24-07-008&xmlpath=&pubId=17&totalResults=891&addRefineFilters=&removeRefineFilters=&addRefineCat=&next_Page=true&prev_Page=false&date_dd_From=1&date_mm_From=01&date_yyyy_From=1785&date_dd_to_range=31&date_mm_to_range=12&date_yyyy_to_range=1985&date_dd_from_precise=1&date_mm_from_precise=01&date_yyyy_from_precise=1785&isDateSearch=false&dateSearchType=range&refineQuerykeyword
Text=] The station's closure was announced in November 1992 and demolition commenced in 1993. The cooling towers and main stack were demolished on the 8 May 1994.cite web
url = http://www.salfordonline.com/editorschoice.php?func=viewdetails&vdetails=1722
title = "Demolition of Agecroft Power Station video footage"
publisher = ITN News] HM Prison Forest Bank has since been built on the station's site.

ee also

*Central Electricity Generating Board
*Agecroft Colliery
*Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal

References

External links

* [http://www.johndavies.uk.com/Bigger%20pictures.htm John Davies, photographer] - image gallery contains 1983 photograph of Agecroft Power Station.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6DeR6gj3Nc YouTube] - Opening Agecroft Power Station 1925.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFBSyudgfgM YouTube] - Agecroft Power Station operating in 1962.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIeBanOu_gk YouTube] - Steeplejacks on Agecroft Power Station's chimney in 1982.
* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=73vtt0kR5uA&feature=related YouTube] - Demolition of Agecroft Cooling Towers in 1994.


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