Dickinson Street power station opened in 1893 but only last a few decades
The site of Manchester’s first power station has reopened as offices in the heart of the city centre — and used mid-century design to inspire it.
Dr Hopkinson opened the plant in 1893 to provide electricity for the surrounding half-mile-squared. Within two years of its opening, electricity demand had surged across the city — so the site powered ‘to a wider suburban area, stretching east and south of the city centre, as far as Failsworth, Audenshaw, Heaton Norris and Withington’, according to Jan Hick, Archives Manager at the Science and Industry Museum.
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