Comments on: Tilbury B Power Station, Essex

By: Derek Smith

Derek Smith — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:26:11 +0000

In reply to Clare. Hello Clare I worked with your Father during the late Seventies, I was then an apprentice your Father was indeed an accomplished electrician who taught me much about Precipitators (they filter dust out of the exhaust gas). We both used to live in Chadwell at that time and when he had I think a knee op or something I used to pick him up for work, I think he used to cycle normally.

By: Clare

Clare — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 16:05:25 +0000

I am trying to find anyone who may of worked with my dad Bernard stump
Be in 70’s to 80’s please

By: Trevor Neild

Trevor Neild — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 19:04:04 +0000

I was a maintenance mechanical shift fitter 1975-1996 mostly remember hot and dusty conditions, contrasted by freezing conditions when having to work on the jetty cranes but most of all, the great men I worked with.

By: Dave Pearce

Dave Pearce — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 11:31:56 +0000

I was seconded to Tilbury from Brunswick Wharf , I was involved in the reconstruction of the 7 and 8 DC Aux Boards that had been destroyed in the cable race fire of 1977 , it was a perfect ending for my early retirement after 38 years in the industry , enjoyed every minute of it.

By: John Swallow

John Swallow — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:17:12 +0000

I worked on the installation of the turbines in 1963 when I was an apprentice at GEC Erith.

By: Tony Barber

Tony Barber — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:07:54 +0000

In reply to Graham Taylor. Hi Graham, I remember the construction of the pumphouse well in the cold winter of January through to A pril 1961 when we were snowed in. There were also challenges with pitching and driving 90' steel sheet and box piles through the river wall. Tony

By: Nuala Garvey

Nuala Garvey — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:42:09 +0000

In reply to Lawrence Moss. Dear Lawrence, I was wondering if you knew my father Connell Doherty, his brother Denis Doherty and his friend John Carey all from Donegal. They were there from 1965 with Foster Wheeler and John Brown Boilers Ltd. Then EE Turbines up to 1974 when they went to the Isle of Grain (GEC).

By: Graham Taylor

Graham Taylor — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:11:14 +0000

I was a site engineer on the pumphouse construction. It was mainly built above ground and sunk – under its own weight and by grabbing the earth from within the cells – into position. The knife-edge bottoms of the cell walls initially sat on concrete blocks and when the structure was several metres tall, these blocks were to be split to allow the structure to penetrate the earth (Thames clay, actually). There was talk of the blocks being cracked by explosives and this operation was due to be filmed for TV. My boss decided to do it a little secretly, by the plug and feather method (a good name for a pub?), in case thinks went wrong. Fortunately they didn’t and the descent of the pumphouse was well-controlled.

By: Bryan Henchley

Bryan Henchley — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:12:54 +0000

Re Construction method.
The stack lining was acid resistant brickwork either Nori or Coalbrook, the jointing cement possibly Prodorite. Built in several sections each one sitting on concrete corbels.