Shoreditch Electricity Generating Station brown plaque
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# Coronet Street's Monument to Victorian Innovation Standing on Coronet Street in 1897, the newly inaugurated Shoreditch Electricity Generating Station represented a bold experiment in urban waste management and energy production—a facility that would transform the East End's relationship with both...
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Coronet Street
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Shoreditch Electricity Generating Station and Refuse Destructor Inaugurated 28 June 1897 by the Shoreditch Vestry, Precursor of Shoreditch Borough Council. An early purpose-built undertaking To generate electricity from steam Created by burning rubbish.