Former electrical substation
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Former electrical substation
Image: © John M Taken: 25 Jan 2014
Premises of the Midland Electrical Corporation for Power Distribution Ltd. MEC supplied power to the smaller towns in the Black Country from a power station at Ocker Hill near Tipton. Generation passed to a joint undertaking with other private and local authorities in 1926. The distribution side continued until nationalisation in 1948. The building can probably be dated after 1926 as the company name originally included both power and distribution.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.570368
Longitude
-2.03581