Peterborough City Council began construction of an electricity
generating station on Albert Place Meadow in 1898, which became
operational on 19, December 1900. It was enlarged in the early
1920's but an additional generating station had to be built shortly
afterwards. Following nationalisation, the generating stations
became vested in the British Electrical Authority (BEA) from 1,
April 1948. They then undertook a massive programme of
reconstruction, building at Peterborough the power station that
operated until the mid-1970's. The BEA became the Central
Electrical Authority in 1955, then transferred its assets to the
Central Electricity Generating Board from 1, January 1958.
Records known to exist relating to Peterborough include:
- Plans and photographs of the Albert Meadow power station near
Peterborough, 1948-1978 (National Register of Archives)
- (acc. 4117)
Held at Huntingdon Record Office.
- Duplicate photographs: 1948 and 1951.
Held at Peterborough Central Library.
National Power plc (National Register of
Archives)
- 1902-1946 : records of Peterborough City Electricity Dept
Held at Cambridge Record Office.
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