Plaque

Electricity Committee

Erection date: 10/7/1902

Inscription

Willesden District Council
This stone was laid by C. Cowley Esq, Chairman of the Electricity Committee
July 10th 1902

Site: Electricity Committee (1 memorial)

NW6, Salusbury Road, 131

In the gables are two substantial relief plaques, on the left: "DWC, 1902", on the right: a coat of arms which we found at Heraldry of the World as the arms of Willesden, shown on a pre-1910 postcard.

Two power stations have been known, at different times, as Willesden Power Station. The Acton Lane Power Station was commissioned in 1899. And Taylors Lane Power Station was built, as a coal-fired station in 1903 by Willesden District Council. These were both transferred out of Council control, as was happening elsewhere. In a 1925 Debate in Parliament about the privatisation of electricity supply Willesden gets a number of name checks.

An OS map from the 1940s-60s (from the ever-useful Layers of London) labels this building as "London Electricity Board Depot", and shows it with a large rear extension filling in the space between the existing building and the cemetery.

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Willesden Urban District Council

Former London borough. Municipal Borough of Willesden 1874 to 1965. In 1965 i...

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C. Cowley

Chairman of the Electricity Committee of the Willesden District Council in 1902.

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