SALON NO. 71: LONDON POWER
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1 review - Westminster Arts Reference Library
Description
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Something A Little Different
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Tickets from £8.00 - £10.00
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16
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Thu, 30th Jan 2020 @ 18:30 - 20:30
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18:30 - 20:30
Each ticket includes a 'plug' of Hendricks Gin
Flying Pigs and Sparking Fish
What keeps the city alight, moving, warm, working and connected?
We take for granted the systems and infrastructure that charge us, occasionally reminded by the shapes of giant(and now transformed) buildings that were once Electric Temples. Join PETER WATTS and LAURENCE SCALES as they follow the cables of London's history of power.
Journalist and London blogger PETER WATTS, author of "Up In Smoke: The Failed Dreams of Battersea Power Station", will talk about the social history of one of London's greatest landmarks.
BATTERSEA POWER STATION was already a national landmark when Pink Floyd put it on the cover of their 1977 album Animals but the image may have helped transform the listed-building from a purely London landmark to an internationally recognised icon.
Peter will discuss the controversial origins and working life of the power station, explaining why it spent the next 30 years as the city's favourite ruin. Baby bleaching, flying pigs, burnt sterling and Michael Jackson should all feature.
Massive brick carcasses of power stations lie along the Thames, but were a passing phase in meeting our power needs.
Historian of science, LAURENCE SCALES will turn up the lights to examine the curious history of London's electricity and what else has been pent up behind the ON/OFF switch for the last 250 years, from horses to hot air. Expect tales of street corner power stations, sparks from fish, treadmills, Pinchbeck cranes and Blake’s Dark Satanic Mills.
Offers
Promotions
Tickets/Times
| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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| LONDON POWER Standard | 18:30 - 20:30 | £10.00 |
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LONDON POWER Concession
Please bring proof of concession
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18:30 - 20:30 | £8.00 |
Location
Address
Westminster Arts Reference Library, 35, St Martins Street, London, WC2H2CP
Nearest Station
Leicester Square (Tube)
Organiser
Antique Beat
Antique Beat
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6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
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11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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