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    50667; -0.05250 The Wapping Hydraulic Power Station (built 1890) was originally run by the London Hydraulic Power Company in Wapping, London, England. Originally...
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  • ducts. Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, the last of the five to close, later became an arts centre and restaurant. Liverpool Hydraulic Power Company...
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    Wapping (/ˈwɒpɪŋ/) is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. Wapping is on the north...
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    converted warehouses facing the river. On this street is the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, built in 1890 and closed in 1977. It is now run as an arts...
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  • short-lived social centre Wapping dispute, a strike by print workers Wapping Hockey Club, in East London Wapping Hydraulic Power Station Wapping Old Stairs, a comic...
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    Pumping Station, Birmingham (building converted to an electricity substation) Twyford Pumping Station, Hampshire Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London...
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  • Harriet Walter. In 1993 WPT began to mount work in the derelict Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in the East End of London. WPT purchased the building from...
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    The Wapping Project Bankside, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London 2011: Point of Interest, The Wapping Project Bankside, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station...
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    pump, to hydraulic equipment like lifts or motors. The system is analogous to an electrical grid transmitting power from a generating station to end-users...
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  • internationally, growing with each destination to include new material. Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London, April 2001; Armani flagship store, Milan, June 2001;...
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  • on a disused Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in Wapping and adopted the name and brand The Wapping Project. Wapping Hydraulic Power Station was converted...
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    Shadwell Basin (category Wapping)
    Captains (South) The former Wapping Hydraulic Power Station building (previously the site of the Wapping Project arts venue and Wapping Food restaurant). Prospect...
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    city-scale hydraulic power networks. The London Hydraulic Power Company installed them at their City Road and Wapping Hydraulic Power Stations. They were...
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    album The Earth With Her Crowns, recorded inside the disused Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. "The Wire's Top 50 Albums of 2014". Album of The Year. Retrieved...
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    Prospect of Whitby (category Wapping)
    of Monaco. On the opposite side of the road (Wapping Wall) is the former Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, later an arts centre and restaurant. There is...
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  • longer in use. These include: The London Hydraulic Power Company, set up in 1883, installed a hydraulic power network of high-pressure cast-iron water...
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    Harbour and to Wapping via a line alongside the New Cut. A Coal Concentration Depot owned by Western Fuels was established at Wapping Wharf just behind...
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    open to allow shipping. Originally hydraulically powered, the operating mechanism was converted to an electro-hydraulic system in 1972. The bridge is part...
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  • nine stations most at risk of serious flooding. These were South Kensington, Embankment, Charing Cross, Waterloo, London Road, London Bridge, Wapping, Bethnal...
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    the days of steam traction to replenish locomotives and to power the station's hydraulic systems. The brickwork was repaired, cleaned and repointed,...
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    Félou Hydroelectric Plant (category Hydroelectric power stations in Mali)
    generating 62.3 MW. The current power station replaced an older one built in the 1920s. Construction of the new power station began in October 2009 and was...
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    flooded daily by the tide and known by the suggestive name 'Wapping in the Wose'", or simply Wapping Marsh or Walmarsh. This close to London, perhaps the original...
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    to create a tunnel under London's River Thames between Rotherhithe and Wapping, with tunnellers driving a horizontal shaft from one side of the river...
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    consumption or for hydroelectric stations. Utility tunnels are used for routing steam, chilled water, electrical power or telecommunication cables, as...
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    Tower of London's ticket office was constructed in 1926 by the London Hydraulic Power Company. The year of 1868 visible on the structure refers to the Tower...
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    railway goods station opposite the Queen's Dock in the south of the city. The terminal was accessed via the 1.26 mi (2.03 km) Wapping Tunnel from Edge...
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    between the rails, energised at 500–525 volts DC. The power was supplied by a generating station at Bramley-Moore Dock that received its coal directly...
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  • February 1987: Wapping dispute: employees of News International strike over the transfer of the company's newspaper production to Wapping with the adoption...
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    the lift height. In 1892, hydraulic machinery, including cranes, appeared in the docks. These used a powerful central power supply and could transfer...
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  • Paddington (Praed Street) station, which injures 70 people, and Westminster Bridge station. 1884 January: The London Hydraulic Power Company is set up by Act...
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