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Description: | Built around 1900 to power Victoria Garesfield Colliery and to light Whinfield Cokeworks and the streets of Victoria Garesfield, Highfield and Rowlands Gill. It later powered an alloy factory adjacent to the cokeworks and when this was greatly enlarged during WW1, the power station was enlarged too. After WW1 the alloy factory closed and the surplus power from Whinfield Power Station was sold to NESCO, the Newcastle Electric Supply Company. The power station closed in 1932. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Coal Industry | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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