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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 97 SW 71 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Sheerness Electric Power Station |
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Summary
Site of Sheerness Power Station
| Grid Reference: | TQ 9321 7345 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ97SW |
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| Parish: | MINSTER-ON-SEA, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- POWER STATION (built 1902, now demolished, Modern - 1902 AD to 1902 AD)
Full description
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Site of a power station and tram depot (TQ 97 SW 1107) complex built by the Sheerness and District Electric Power and Traction Co in 1902-3. The power station (at TQ 9315 7345) was situated immediately to the SE of the depot. It supplied domestic and industrial users at 460v DC by overhead transmission and tramway power at 550v DC. 3 Brush generators driven by 3 Browett and Lindley engines provided the tram power and there were timber cooling towers. The trams stopped running in 1917 and the depot became a bus depot. The power station continued generating as the Sheerness and District Electricity Supply Co until it was absorbed into the BET Electricity Supply Co in 1937. Probably closed on Nationalisation and since demolished. Site still vacant (1-2). Recorded in site photograph (3).
<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, 'Invicta' 1971 The Tramways of Kent Vol1 p118 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.
<2> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Site visit by D Eve May 1996 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.
<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9499.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. 'Invicta' 1971 The Tramways of Kent Vol1 p118. |
| <2> | Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Site visit by D Eve May 1996. |
| <3> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3062. print. |
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