Spa Road Power Station

Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: Unknown

Taken not long before it was demolished this electricity generating station at Spa Road was built between 1945 and 1948 with northern extension of 1953. It replaced the Clayton and Shuttleworth station on the same site, purchased by the City Council in 1917. Little seems to be known of the original power plant on this site but the architects for this building were Mouchel and Partners and the estimated cost was £1,448,516. The 60MW station was then nationalised in 1948 under the Central Electricity Generating Board. Generating plant was decommissioned in 1984 with the closed site then becoming overgrown and falling into decay. The main buildings were demolished in 2003. The land has more recently largely been cleared of trees and shrubbery and outline planning shows a proposed new, over 300 home, housing estate. Unfortunately, there seem to be few structures surviving from Lincoln's early electricity system, although there are reportedly sub-stations on the corners of Newport and Church Lane (Image) and Monks Road, in the corner of the arboretum. Power to the sub-stations built in the 1930s was probably fed from the Clayton and Shuttleworth power station and later this Spa Road Power Station. There is also a sub-station on the corner of Cross Street and Thesiger Street with very similar design (Image).

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