This morning after relocating from the hotel to the apartment, we headed down to the Battersea Power Station shopping complex. This is something I’ve always been interested in and really wanted to see it once it was redeveloped. Very glad it wasn’t just turned into a mass of expensive apartments. Combined this with a ride on the new Elizabeth Tube Line which runs all the way from East London out to Heathrow.
The Battersea Power Station is the largest brick building in Europe, and is now grade 2 listed (heritage listing). The building will be familiar to a lot of people, as it was featured on a Pink Floyd album cover. It’s also in the Art Deco style
It operated as a power station from the 1930s up until the 1980s, according to the history display inside, it once provided 20% of greater London’s electricity and it survived the blitz in the 1940s as the Luftwaffe used the steam and smoke emanating from the giant chimneys as a guiding beacon as to where London was.
Apart from the architecture and the ability to ride a lift to the top of one of the chimneys, it just a massive high end shopping complex. Should you go there ? If you are into architecture, Pink Floyd or shopping, then yes. If you are pressed for time there are dozens of things I’d do first.
Had a somewhat average coffee from Joe and the Juice. I ordered small but somehow got a bucket of coffee. It was weak (no surprise given the size of it). Was not cheap either, 3 coffees set me back about $A32
I was impressed with the LEGO store and the Polestar store. I got to sit in the new Polestar 3 which hasn’t been released yet. We also decided to get a photo with Santa to record the occasion of being in the UK for Christmas. Surprisingly the Santa photo was free! I was expecting them to charge £50. There was no queue either. At home free Santa photos would cause a massive queue.
It's all about the coffee 