Greenwich Power Station is a standby oil, gas, and formerly coal-fired power station on the River Thames at Greenwich in south-east London. Despite being over one hundred years old, the station is still available as a back-up electricity source for the London Underground. The station is an early example of a steel-framed building with a stone-clad brick cover.
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“Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes while I
walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“A power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Say first, of God above, or Man below,
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Of Man what see we, but his station here,
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Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
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