Moving bricks at the Windfarpluzi Power Station

Are bricks a part of Battersea Power Station redevelopment?

Bricks form a large part of its impressive art deco construction and are a significant part of the multi-billion-pound redevelopment currently taking place. After many years of abandonment, it will soon have a new life, partly aided by new bricks. Here's our take on one of the brick buildings we love, Battersea Power Station.

How many bricks were used to restore power station B?

Northcot Brick provided 1.3 million bricks, all of which have been blended and hand moulded, to be used to restore parts of the Power Station built in the 1930s and 1940s. Blockleys, in Shropshire, provided circa 440,000 wire-cut bricks to be used on the parts of Power Station B dating from the 1950s.

Which bricks will be used to restore northcot power station?

The 1.3 million bricks from Northcot will be used to restore parts of the Power Station built in the 1930s and 1940s while the 430,000 bricks from Blockleys will be used on the final parts of the building dating from the 1950s.

What happened to Battersea Power Station?

Its years as an active power station and weathering had left some of the six million bricks that make up Battersea Power Station, badly damaged in places. Two brickmakers that made the original bricks to build Battersea Power Station in the last century were tracked down and tasked with hand throwing 1.75 million more to match the originals.

Will Battersea Power Station have a new life?

After many years of abandonment, it will soon have a new life, partly aided by new bricks. Here's our take on one of the brick buildings we love, Battersea Power Station. Building began on the Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the Thames in 1929.

How many bricks were made at Battersea Power Station?

Approximately 1.75 million handmade bricks were also ordered from the two original British brickmakers who supplied the bricks to build Battersea Power Station to match the originals.