123-540: The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company was a shipbuilder and repairer in Burntisland , Fife , Scotland that was founded in 1918. In 1969 it was taken over by Robb-Caledon Shipbuilders , which in turn was nationalised in 1977 as part of British Shipbuilders . In the 1970s the Burntisland yard switched from shipbuilding to prefabricating modules of superstructure for offshore oil platforms, but orders were intermittent and by
246-410: A Hawthorn Leslie -Doxford four-cylinder diesel engine. Hull 330 was launched in 1949 as MV Sycamore , a 3,343 GRT cargo ship for Johnston Warren Lines of Liverpool. Further orders from Johnston Warren Lines were hulls 353 and 355 launched in 1954 as the 3,596 GRT MV Beechmore and 3,597 GRT MV Pinemore , and hull 385 launched in 1958 as the 6,659 GRT cargo ship MV Mystic . Hulls 334 and 335 were
369-405: A London landmark. In a 1939 survey by The Architectural Review , a panel of celebrities ranked it as their second favourite modern building. The A station's control room was given many Art Deco fittings by architect Halliday. Italian marble was used in the turbine hall, and polished parquet floors and wrought-iron staircases were used throughout. Owing to a lack of available money following
492-714: A barge, the Blessing of Burntisland , carrying Charles I and his entourage's baggage from Burntisland to Leith sank with the loss of Charles' treasure. In 1638, the town like much of the country rallied behind the cause of the National Covenant in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms . The town with its good harbour became a magazine and supply depot for the Army of the Covenant . Burntisland
615-425: A cinema. Cosmopolitan shops would have been sited in the A Station's turbine hall, and label name shops in the B Station's turbine hall. The boiler house would have been glazed over and used as a public space for installations and exhibitions. A riverside walkway would also be created, running continuously along the riverside from Vauxhall to Battersea Park . Parkview claimed that 3,000 jobs would be created during
738-652: A dock at Burntisland called the Newhaven and says a pier and the three blockhouses were to the west, at "Mill Dame". During the war of the Rough Wooing in 1548 the English commander Edward Clinton planned to reconstruct the harbour and pier and their defences, employing a military engineer. In 1559, the town came under French occupation when Scottish Protestant leaders opposed the Catholic Mary of Guise . The occupation ended with
861-688: A few years later. The main Power Station building was opened to the public in October 2022. As of 2023, the building and the overall 42-acre (17 ha) site development is owned by a consortium of Malaysian investors. The station is also notable for its appearance on the cover of rock band Pink Floyd 's tenth studio album Animals (1977). Located on the south bank of the River Thames , in Nine Elms, Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London ,
984-409: A fishing hamlet to provide food for the inhabitants of Rossend Castle . The harbour was then sold to James V by the abbots of Dunfermline Abbey in exchange for a parcel of land. The land was granted royal burgh status by James V in 1541. When the status was confirmed in 1586, the settlement gained independence from the barony of Kinghorn and was renamed Burntisland, possibly a nickname from
1107-541: A further 11 colliers for the same customer, which from 1932 was called the Wandsworth and District Gas Company . Being built in 1918 the yard was modern, well-equipped and thus well-placed to compete during the Great Depression . In 1929 the company introduced its "Burntisland Economy" ship design, intended for maximum fuel efficiency. The concept was popular with ship-owners during the depression and Burntisland continued
1230-687: A landmark any more." In 2005 Parkview, English Heritage and the London Borough of Wandsworth said that the reinforcement inside the chimneys was corroded and irreparable. Wandsworth Council granted permission for them to be demolished and rebuilt. However, the Twentieth Century Society , the World Monuments Fund and the Battersea Power Station Company commissioned an alternative engineers' report that concluded that
1353-505: A larger tanker, hull 416, launched in 1965 as the 3,971 GRT MV Olau Mark for Olau Line of Denmark. Burntisland Burntisland ( / b ɜːr n t ˈ aɪ l ən d / listen , Scots : Bruntisland ) is a former Royal burgh and parish in Fife , Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth . It was previously known as Wester Kinghorn or Little Kinghorn . The town has
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#17328760592391476-689: A modern building which opened in August 2014 on the Toll Park. The school roll is around 690, which includes 160 nursery pupils. The adjacent nursery building across the road continues to be used. At its previous site on Ferguson Place the school first opened in 1876, and by 2000 was spread across five separate buildings. The majority of secondary school pupils attend Balwearie High School in nearby Kirkcaldy . Catholic pupils travel to St Marie's Primary School or St Andrews High School, also in Kirkcaldy. Immediately to
1599-584: A new version of the Bible be created: leading to the creation of the 1611 authorised King James Bible , which (after the Union of Crowns in 1606 represented both England and Scotland but was requested whilst the King was solely King of Scotland. Ministers of the church in sequence were: John Brown (1567-1589); Andrew Lamb (1593-1596); William Symson (1597-1601); William Watson (1601-1616); John Michaelson (1616-1640 refused to sign
1722-555: A number of arch-deck colliers from 900 to 2,300 tons GRT. Burntisland built numerous flatiron colliers with low superstructures, hinged funnel and hinged or telescopic mast(s) to fit under bridges upriver from the Pool of London on the River Thames . Burntisland's first flatiron was hull 119, launched in 1922 as the 932 GRT coastal collier Wandle for the Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company. From 1923 to 1946 Burntisland built
1845-522: A pair of 1,315 GRT flatirons for the London Power Company , which operated Battersea Power Station and Deptford Power Station . Burntisland went on to build six further colliers for the LPC between 1933 and 1945. Hull 173 was launched in 1932 as Wandle , a 1,482 GRT flatirons for the Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company. She replaced the previous Wandle that Burntisland had built for
1968-472: A pair of 3,364 GRT cargo liners for Prince line, launched in 1950 as MV Afric Prince and MV Egyptian Prince . Each ship had a 300 BHP Hawthorn Leslie four-cylinder diesel engine, a top speed of 14 knots (26 km/h) and accommodation for 12 passengers. Hull 337 was launched in February 1951 as MV Derrymore , a 5,678 GRT cargo ship that replaced one of the same name that Burntisland built for
2091-569: A pair of 3,668 GRT sister ships for British-India S.N. Co launched in 1948 as MV Warora and MV Warla . Each had a Barclay Curle - Doxford three-cylinder diesel engine. Hulls 319–321 were launched for the newly founded Christensen Canadian African Lines as the 3,623 GRT MV Thorshall in May 1948, 3,632 GRT MV Thorstrand in December 1948 and 3,713 GRT MV Thorsisle in March 1949. Each ship had
2214-481: A population of 6,269 (2011). Burntisland is known locally for its award-winning sandy beach, the 15th-century Rossend Castle , as well as the traditional summer fair and Highland games day. To the north of the town a hill called The Binn is a landmark of the Fife coastline; a volcanic plug , it rises 193 metres (632 ft) above sea level. Early evidence of human activity in this area has been found in rock carvings on
2337-413: A series of smaller towers. The eco-dome would house offices, and aim to reduce energy consumption in the buildings by 67% compared to conventional office buildings, by using the towers to draw cool air through the building. 3,200 new homes would also be built on the site to house 7,000 people. In June 2008 a consultation process was launched, which revealed that 66% of the general public were in favour of
2460-466: A source close to the process told Reuters. AIM-listed Real Estate Opportunities is seeking a partner for the 5.5 billion pound ($ 9 billion) development, and its senior lenders Lloyds and Ireland's National Asset Management Agency have already extended a deadline once relating to the £400 million REO paid for the site in 2006. 'The banks have nothing to gain by calling the debt in. Talks with new equity partners continue, and an announcement may come in
2583-573: A town wall to both north and east in the post-Flodden world of late 16th century Scotland, which placed the old church outwith the protective wall, was one of the several reasons that a new church was built in 1592: Burntisland Parish Church , also known as St Columba's. This was the first new parish church built in Scotland after the Reformation. It is a unique shape, square with a central tower upheld on pillars, and lined all round with galleries, to allow
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#17328760592392706-577: A year after her launch. Burntisland launched a further two large ships per year for Carlton in 1942–44. Also in 1941, Burntisland started to build colliers for the Gas Light and Coke Company to supply Beckton Gas Works in east London. Hull 235 was launched in April as the 2,816 GRT Adams Beck . Burntisland went on to build five further colliers for the GL&;CC in the 1940s. In 1942 Burntisland launched hull 264 as
2829-507: Is home to the eleventh-oldest golf club in the world – Burntisland Golf Club (the 'Old Club', as it is known among its members). Although it is not a course-owning club, its competitions are held over on the local course now run by Burntisland Golf House Club at Dodhead. The Beacon Leisure Centre features a 25-metre swimming pool with a wave machine and flumes, as well as gym facilities. Opened in 1997, this replaced an open-air bathing pool which closed in 1979. One of Scotland's Great Trails ,
2952-528: Is home to the second oldest highland games in the world starting in 1652. The Games take place on the first saturday of July, the start of the Fife/Glasgow fair fortnight, and a local market and summer fairground takes place on the same day. Burntisland Shipyard is the town's senior football club, currently competing in the East of Scotland League Second Division – the seventh tier of Scottish football . The town
3075-669: Is used to condense steam from the steam turbines before it is returned to the boiler. Water cycled through the power station's systems was taken from the Thames. The station could extract an average of 1.5 million cubic metres (340 million imperial gallons) of water from the river each day. After the end of World War II, the London Power Company used the waste heat to supply the Pimlico District Heating Undertaking . The reduction of sulphur emissions
3198-458: The 2004 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund . Since the station's closure, redevelopment plans have been drawn up by successive site owners. In 2004, when a redevelopment project by Parkview International stalled, the site was sold to the administrators of Irish company Real Estate Opportunities (REO), who bought it for £ 400 million in November 2006 with plans to refurbish
3321-725: The Armistice : hull 101 in June as War Brosna , 102 in September as War Dodder and 103 in November as War Tolka . Burntisland's first peacetime order was for a pair of 2,300 GRT cargo steamers for Compagnie Lasry of Oran , Algeria. Hulls 104 and 105 were launched in 1920 as Nelly Lasry and Sidney Lasry . In the 1920s the yard built merchant ships ranging from coasters of about 600 tons to ocean-going cargo ships of up to 4,700 tons GRT. Most common were ocean-going four- or five- hold tramp steamers of 1,500 to 2,500 tons. The yard also built
3444-472: The BBC Television Centre , which was due to launch BBC2 that night; the launch was delayed until the following morning. Both of the stations were designed by a team of architects and engineers. The team was headed by Leonard Pearce , the chief engineer of the London Power Company, but a number of other notable engineers were also involved, including Henry Newmarch Allott, and T. P. O'Sullivan who
3567-495: The Electricity Act 1947 nationalised Britain's electricity supply industry. Burntisland supplied one collier for the new state-owned British Electricity Authority : hull 341, launched in 1951 as the 1,837 GRT Brimsdown , named after Brimsdown Power Station in north London. Burntisland maintained its reputation for high quality tramps and cargo-liners. By 1945 a majority of orders were for motor vessels. Hulls 316 and 317 were
3690-498: The steam turbine turbo generators , was produced by Metropolitan-Vickers in Trafford Park , Manchester . The building of the steel frame began in October 1930. Once completed, the construction of the brick cladding began, in March 1931. Until the construction of the B Station, the eastern wall of the boiler house was clad in corrugated metal sheeting as a temporary enclosure. The A Station first generated electricity in 1933, but
3813-405: The sulphur dioxide was converted into sulphuric acid . The plant was one of the world's first commercial applications of this technique. This process was stopped in the B Station in the 1960s, when it was discovered that the discharge of these products into the Thames was more harmful than sulphur dioxide would be to the atmosphere. Electricity output from Battersea A & B power stations over
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3936-705: The 1,873 GRT MV Kingston , was the final flatiron collier for the South Eastern Gas Board. She also turned out to be the last of 28 flatirons that Burntisland had built for various customers over a period of 34 years. In the 1950s The Scottish and Mercantile Investment Co bought a majority shareholding in the company. However, the Ayre brothers continued to manage the business. By the mid-1950s orders were sufficient for Burntisland to subcontract two coasters to Hall Russell in Aberdeen. In 1956 Hall Russell launched hull 378 as
4059-509: The 187 km Fife Coastal Path , passes through the town. From Aberdour the route follows the railway line, goes along the High Street, and then heads towards Kinghorn via the beach promenade and A921 road. At low tide it is possible to walk from the beach across the sands to Pettycur before rejoining the route in Kinghorn. The town currently has one school, Burntisland Primary School, housed in
4182-628: The 1950s Burntisland built relatively few vessels more than about 425 feet (130 m) long and 57 feet (17.4 m) beam. The yard was connected to the North British Railway by an extensive internal rail network that carried steel to various parts of the yard. Burntisland's first three vessels were standard "C" type cargo ships of just over 3,100 GRT each for the UK Government's wartime Shipping Controller, laid down in 1918 as hull numbers 101, 102 and 103. They were launched in 1919 after
4305-550: The 1950s Burntisland took two orders for steam turbine cargo ships. The first order was for a pair of ore carriers for the Panamanian Pan Ore Steam Ship Co, Inc. Hull 352 was launched in 1953 as the 5,000 GRT TSS Dispatcher . Her sister ship hull 351 was launched in 1954 as the 4,952 GRT TSS Discoverer . David Rowan and Company of Glasgow, part of Lithgows Limited, built the turbines and reduction gearing for both ships. The second turbine order
4428-586: The 1980s the yard was largely idle. In 1990 new owners returned the yard to production as Burntisland Fabrications or BiFab, resuming the manufacture of superstructure modules for oil platforms. Under a management buyout in 2001 the Burntisland yard returned to being an independent company. Brothers Amos Ayre and Wilfrid Ayre founded Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. in 1918 as a First World War emergency shipyard. Its yard at Burntisland West Dock had four berths and capacity to build ships up to 450 feet (140 m) long and up to 59 feet (18 m) beam. However, until
4551-409: The 3,373 GRT MV Corsea for Wm. Cory. Hull 379 was launched in Aberdeen as Winga for Glen and Company of Glasgow and completed in 1957. Winga proved to be Burntisland's last steam-powered ship. In the 1950s there were far fewer orders for ships with reciprocating steam engines. However, geared steam turbines are more compact, more powerful and less vibratory than reciprocating engines. Early in
4674-487: The 6,515 GRT MV Huntsland for Power S.S. Co, had a length and beam of 477 feet (145 m) and 64 feet (19.5 m). Hull 362, launched in 1956 as the 8,390 GRT (11,850 DWT ) MV Capetan Cardemalitis for the Tramp Chartering Corporation of Piraeus , had a length, beam and draught of 479 feet (146 m), 63 feet (19.2 m) and 28 feet (8.5 m). Hull 367, launched in October 1956 as
4797-758: The 7,043 GRT cargo ship MV Highland Prince for Prince Line. In 1944 hull 280 was launched as the 7,150 GRT MV Scottish Prince . Burntisland went on to build eight further merchant ships for Prince line between 1946 and 1960. Burntisland built a number of war standard ships for the Ministry of War Transport , including the 7,290 GRT hulls 261 and 266 launched as Empire Rosalind and Empire Glory in 1942 and 1943. Other MoWT orders included two merchant aircraft carriers : hull 268 launched in 1942 as MV Empire MacAlpine and hull 277 launched in 1943 as MV Empire MacKendrick . Hulls 291 to 294 were launched in February and March 1944 as CHANT 66 to CHANT 69 : part of
4920-485: The B Station's generating capacity had fallen to 146 MW. The closure of the two stations was put down largely to the generating equipment becoming outdated, and the preferred choice of fuel for electricity generation shifting from coal toward oil , gas and nuclear power . Following the station's closure, the Central Electricity Generating Board had planned to demolish the station and sell
5043-497: The Binn, thought to be about 4,000 years old. The Roman commander Agricola may have used the natural harbour and set up camp at the nearby Dunearn Hill in AD 83. The earliest historical record of the town was in the 12th century, when the monks of Dunfermline Abbey owned the harbour and neighbouring lands. The settlement was known as Wester Kinghorn or Little Kinghorn and developed as
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5166-529: The Commons that Burntisland Shipbuilding had cut its workforce from about 1,500 in 1961 to just over 500 in 1963. (An alternative source states that in 1961 Burntisland had 1,000 employees.) On 14 March Gourlay pleaded for small shipyards on the east coast of Scotland such as Burntisland to be awarded War Department contracts and on 27 May he claimed in the Commons that the Local Employment Act had not led to
5289-601: The House of Commons. In it he reported that in 1957 about 1,700 people had been employed in shipyards in Kirkcaldy and Burntisland but this workforce had now been reduced to about 800. On 26 July 1962 Harry Gourlay again expressed concern in the Commons that Burntisland Shipbuilding had made a number of its employees redundant. However, the Conservative MP Frederick Erroll , President of the Board of Trade , replied that
5412-471: The LPC, and CS Allott & Son Engineers. The architects were J. Theo Halliday and Giles Gilbert Scott . The station is one of the world's largest brick buildings and notable for its original, Art Deco interior fittings and decor. The building comprises two power stations, built in two stages, in a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built between 1929 and 1935 and Battersea B Power Station , to its east, between 1937 and 1941, when construction
5535-598: The Links, also takes place annually during the summer. First held in 1983 at the bandstand on the Links, it now runs for the whole weekend at different venues in the town on the second weekend in August. The A921 coast road runs through the town and connects to the M90 motorway at Inverkeithing in the west and the A92 at Kirkcaldy in the east. The A909 travels inland towards the A92 at Cowdenbeath and
5658-531: The London Underground , requirements to fund conservation of the derelict power station shell, and the presence of a waste transfer station and cement plant on the river frontage made commercial development of the site a significant challenge. Until the late 1930s, electricity was supplied by municipal undertakings. These were small power companies that built power stations dedicated to a single industry or group of factories, and sold any excess electricity to
5781-517: The M90 at Kelty. Burntisland railway station is on the Fife Circle Line and provides direct links with Kirkcaldy to the north and Edinburgh to the south. However, only the southbound platform provides step-free access. The town is also served by Stagecoach bus service 7, which runs between Dunfermline in the west and Leven (via Kirkcaldy) in the east. The circular B1 service covers most areas of
5904-982: The National Covenant); Andrew Lesly (1640-1643); John Smith (1643-1648); George Nairne (1649-1662 imprisoned); Harry Malcolm (1663); William Livingston (1663-1672 imprisoned); George Clerk of Crowley (1672-1688 suicide); George Johnston (1688-1691); James Pitcairn (c.1691); James Inglis (1692-1699); John Cleghorn (1701-1711); Henry Robin (1714-1718 left due to adultery); James Thomson (1719-1740 moved to Antiburgher Church ); Robert Spears (1743-1773); James Wemyss (1779-1820); Charles Watson (1820-1837) father of Robert Boog Watson and Patrick Heron Watson ; John Aikman Wallace (1827-1833); David Couper (1834-1843 moved to Free Church); Robert William Fraser (1843-4); James MacKintosh (1844-1848); John Robin (1849-1873); James Edgar Hill (1873-1877); Robert James Cameron (1877-9); John MacAlister Thomson (1879-1880 died in pulpit); Joseph Sage Finlayson (1880-1909); John Rogan (1910-?). Burntisland
6027-568: The River Thames's bridges above the Pool of London . The LPC and its nationalised successors owned and operated several "flat-irons" for this service. Coal was usually delivered to the jetty where two cranes, capable of unloading two ships at a time at a rate of 480 tonnes an hour, offloaded coal. Some coal was delivered by rail to the east of the station from the Brighton Main Line which passes nearby. A conveyor belt system moved
6150-464: The Second World War, the interior of the B Station was not given the same treatment, and instead the fittings were made from stainless steel . Each of the two connected stations consists of a long boiler house with a chimney at each end and an adjacent turbine hall . This makes a single main building which is of steel frame construction with brick cladding, similar to the skyscrapers built in
6273-545: The United States around the same time. The station is the largest brick structure in Europe. The building's gross dimensions measure 160 m (520 ft) by 170 m (560 ft), with the roof of the boiler house standing at over 50 m (160 ft). Each of the four chimneys is made from concrete and stands 103 m (338 ft) tall with a base diameter of 8.5 m (28 ft) tapering to 6.7 m (22 ft) at
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#17328760592396396-504: The Wandsworth and District Gas Co. Hull 328 was launched in 1948 as MV Adams Beck for the GL&CC. Under the Gas Act 1948 the Wandsworth and District Gas Co became part of South Eastern Gas Board , whom Burntisland supplied with five further flatirons between 1949 and 1956. Hulls 307 and 308, launched in 1947 and 1948 as the 1,776 GRT MV Fulham VIII and 1,759 GRT MV Fulham IX , were the last two flatirons for Fulham Borough Council before
6519-411: The appropriateness of the project for its location, and the proposal of other large buildings on the site. Keith Garner of the group said "I feel that there's a real problem of appropriateness. They need a completely different kind of scheme, not this airport-lounge treatment. What you see now is a majestic building looming up from the river. If you surround it with buildings 15 storeys high, you don't have
6642-409: The arrival of an English fleet in 1560, prompting the occupiers to retreat by land, back to Leith. The harbour at this time was dry at low-tide and ships lay in the "ooze" or mud. In 1622 a leaking Spanish ship entered the harbour and promptly sank. The crew said they were whalers, and they had whaling equipment, but the town baillies were suspicious and imprisoned the officers in the tolbooth and put
6765-450: The building comprises two power stations, built in two stages in a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s and Battersea B Power Station, to its east, in the 1950s. They were built to a near-identical design, providing the four-chimney structure. The power station was decommissioned between 1975 and 1983 and remained empty until 2014. It was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1980. In 2007 its listed status
6888-450: The burning of fishermens' huts on an islet now incorporated into the docks. However, Ross (2007) considers this explanation of the town's name "implausible" and proposes the origin Burnet's Land after a local personal name. Substantial remains of the original parish church , built in the late 12th century, survive in a churchyard to the north of the old town on Church Street. The building of
7011-639: The closure of the A Station, rumours began to circulate that the B Station would soon follow. A campaign was then launched to try to save the building as part of the national heritage. As a result, the station was declared a heritage site in 1980, when the Secretary of State for the Environment , Michael Heseltine , awarded the building Grade II listed status. (This was upgraded to Grade II* listed in 2007.) On 31 October 1983 production of electricity at Station B also ended, after nearly 30 years of operation. By then
7134-410: The coal to a storage area or directly to the station's boiler rooms. The conveyor belt system consisted of a series of bridges connected by towers. The storage area was a large concrete box capable of holding 75,000 tonnes of coal. It had an overhead gantry and a conveyor belt attached to the conveyor belt system for moving coal to the boiler rooms. Water, essential to a thermal power station ,
7257-528: The company got into financial difficulties. The shipyard closed in 1969 and was sold to Robb Caledon of Leith . Robb Caledon eventually secured orders to for the yard to build modules for the North Sea oil and natural gas industry, and formed its Burntisland Engineering Fabricators (BEF) subsidiary to manage this work. Towards the end of the 1970s orders declined, in 1978 Robb Caledon was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders and in 1979 Burntisland yard
7380-546: The construction of 3,400 apartments and 3,500,000-square-foot (330,000 m ) of office space. Approximately 28,000 inhabitants and 25,000 workers would be expected to occupy the space once complete. Reuters reported in September 2011 that lenders would allow more time for a new equity partner to be found: Lenders to the owner of Battersea Power Station in London waived a debt maturity deadline yesterday while talks with potential new equity partners for its redevelopment continued,
7503-558: The construction of the project, and 9,000 would be employed once completed, with an emphasis on local recruitment. The Battersea Power Station Community Group campaigned against the Parkview plan and argued for an alternative community-based scheme to be drawn up. The group described the plans as "a deeply unattractive project that has no affordable housing anywhere on the 38-acre (150,000 m ) site, no decent jobs for local people and no credible public transport strategy". They also criticised
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#17328760592397626-866: The creation of any new jobs in Burntisland. Whitelaw conceded that the number of shipyard workers unemployed in Burntisland had risen from six in May 1961 to 116 in May 1963. In 1963 Sir Wilfrid Ayre retired after 45 years at the head of the company. Metcalf Motor Coasters renewed its relationship with Burntisland by ordering five new coastal tankers: hull 399 launched in 1961 as MV Ann M , hull 404 launched in 1962 as MV John M , hull 410 launched in 1964 as MV Frank M , hull 411 launched in 1965 as MV Nicholas M and finally hull 417 launched in 1966 as MV Eileen M . Burntisland succeeded in securing orders from notable customers. Hull 402, launched in 1962 as MV Montreal City and hull 406, launched in 1964 as MV Halifax City were sister ships of just over 6,500 GRT for Bristol City Line . Hull 403, launched in 1962 as MV Beaverpine ,
7749-558: The design with a succession of developments during the 1930s. Some ships that Burntisland built for shipping companies went on to become Empire ships under the Ministry of War Transport in the Second World War . Hull 164, launched in 1935 as Roxburgh , became Empire Tower in 1942. Hull 207, launched in 1937 as Ginnheim , became Empire Ouse in 1945. Burntisland continued to build numerous colliers. Hulls 171 and 172, launched in 1932 as Alexander Kennedy and Ferranti , were
7872-492: The existing chimneys could be repaired. In response, Parkview said that they had provided a legally binding undertaking to the council to provide certainty that the chimneys would be replaced "like for like", in accordance with the requirements of English Heritage and the planning authorities. In November 2006, it was announced that Real Estate Opportunities, led by Irish businessmen Richard Barrett and Johnny Ronan of Treasury Holdings , had purchased Battersea Power Station and
7995-583: The first of several large standard-design 7,195 GRT cargo ships for the Carlton Steam Ship Co of Newcastle upon Tyne. War shipping needs and losses called for an unprecedented rate of shipbuilding. In July, August and October 1941 Burntisland launched three further large ships of the same standard design for Carlton. They included Earlston , which was torpedoed and sunk off the North Cape in July 1942 less than
8118-406: The former concern by hiring Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to design the building's exterior. He was a distinguished architect and industrial designer, famous for his designs for the red telephone box and Liverpool Anglican Cathedral . He subsequently designed another London power station, Bankside , which now houses Tate Modern art gallery. The pollution issue was resolved by granting permission for
8241-421: The freehold title in May 1996. In November 1996 plans for the redevelopment of the site were submitted and outline consent was received in May 1997. Detailed consent for much of the site was granted in August 2000, and the rest in May 2001. The company received full possession of the site in 2003. Having purchased the site, Parkview started work on a £1.1 billion project to restore the building and to redevelop
8364-630: The greatest number of people to be reached by the minister's words during the service. The church contains some carved wooden panels. In 1601, King James VI chose the town as an alternative site for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland . This was when a new translation of the Bible was first discussed, a project which James brought to fruition a decade later in the King James Bible . The town
8487-453: The land for housing, but because of the building's then Grade II listed status, they had to pay the high cost of preserving the building. In 1983 they held a competition for ideas on the redevelopment of the site. It was won by a consortium led by developer David Roche and which included John Broome, owner of Alton Towers Ltd. This consortium proposed an indoor theme park , with shops and restaurants. At an estimated cost of £35 million,
8610-423: The large CHANT fleet of 400 GRT prefabricated coastal tankers. Wartime demand rose so high that in 1944–45 Burntisland subcontracted orders for five coasters to Hall, Russell & Company of Aberdeen : hulls 270, 273, 274, 276 and 281. In April 1945 Burntisland launched hull 290, the 7,541 GRT Padana for the British-India Steam Navigation Company . BI ordered two more cargo ships from Burntisland after
8733-460: The largest ever built in the UK at that time. The B station also had the highest thermal efficiency of any power station in the country for the first 12 years of its operation. The power station consumed over 1,000,000 tonnes of coal annually, mostly from pits in South Wales and North East England , delivered by coastal colliers . These were "flat-irons" with a low-profile superstructure and fold-down funnels and masts to fit under
8856-495: The last being hull 398 launched in 1961 as MV Gilsland . Hull 184, launched in 1934 as MV Charles M , was Burntisland's first diesel ship. She was a 403 GRT coaster with a Humboldt-Deutz engine and was built for T.J. Metcalf of London. Burntisland built a second Humboldt-Deutz-engined motor coaster for Metcalf, hull 196, that was launched in 1936 as MV Daniel M . Hulls 191 and 192, launched in 1935 as Corbrae and Corburn , were for William Cory & Son . Over
8979-540: The need for unloading and re-loading at the ferries. (Passengers however had to disembark and use separate passenger ferries). This operated until 1890 when the Forth Bridge opened. The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company at Burntisland West Dock was founded in 1918 as an emergency shipyard for the First World War , specialising in cargo ships . In 1929 the yard introduced the "Burntisland Economy" steamship, which
9102-589: The next 21 years Burntisland went on to build a total of 17 colliers for Cory, the last two being hulls 376 and 378 launched in 1956 as MV Corstar and MV Corsea . Hulls 193–195 were a trio of flatirons launched in successive years as Fulham in 1935, Fulham II in 1936 and Fulham III in 1937. They were built for the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham to supply Fulham Power Station . Burntisland went on to build six further flatirons for Fulham between 1938 and 1948. Hull 213, launched in 1938 as MV Derrymore ,
9225-492: The next few weeks,' the source said. However, in November 2011, Lloyds and NAMA called in the debt and the REO scheme collapsed into administration. In February 2012, Sir Terry Farrell 's architectural firm put forward a proposal to convert the power station site into an "urban park" with an option to develop housing at a later date. In this vision, Farrell proposed to demolish all but the central boiler hall and chimneys and display
9348-450: The outside and was constructed directly to its east as a mirror to it, which gave the power station its now familiar four-chimney layout. The construction of the B Station brought the site's generating capacity up to 509 MW, making it the third largest generating site in the UK at the time, providing a fifth of London's electricity needs (with the remainder supplied by 28 smaller stations). It
9471-476: The period 1964–83 was as follows. Battersea A annual electricity output GWh. Battersea B annual electricity output GWh. The station's demise was caused by its output falling with age, coupled with increased operating costs, such as flue gas cleaning. On 17 March 1975, the A Station was closed after being in operation for 40 years. By this time the A Station was co-firing oil and its generating capacity had declined to 228 MW. Three years after
9594-434: The plans. At an event at the station on 23 March 2009, it was announced that REO were to submit the planning application for their proposal to Wandsworth Council . The Council gave planning consent on 11 November 2010. REO hoped construction would begin in 2011, but this was cancelled. The station structure itself was expected to be repaired and secure by 2016, with completion of the whole project by 2020. Plans included
9717-457: The press as "architect of the exterior". The station was designed in the brick-cathedral style of power station design, which was popular at the time. Battersea is one of a very small number of examples of this style of power station design still in existence in the UK, others being Uskmouth and Bankside . The station's design proved popular straightaway, and was described as a "temple of power", which ranked equal with St Paul's Cathedral as
9840-605: The proposal was changed to a mixture of offices, shops and a hotel. This proposal was granted planning permission in August 1990, despite opposition from 14 independent organisations, including English Heritage . Despite permission being granted, no further work took place on the site between 1990 and 1993. In 1993, the site and its outstanding debt of £70 million were bought from the Bank of America by Hong Kong-based development company, Parkview International , for £10 million. Following resolution of creditors' claims, it acquired
9963-484: The public. These companies used widely differing standards of voltage and frequency. In 1925 Parliament decided that the power grid should be a single system with uniform standards and under public ownership. Several of the private power companies reacted to the proposal by forming the London Power Company (LPC). They planned to heed parliament's recommendations and build a small number of very large stations. The London Power Company's first of these super power stations
10086-669: The redundancies had not increased unemployment in Burntisland. On 5 November 1962 Gourlay told the Commons that he blamed the Conservative Government 's economic policy for the decline of shipbuilding in the United Kingdom. William Whitelaw MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour , denied this and replied that the Ministry of Labour planned to create a centre in Fife to retrain redundant workers for alternative employment. On 14 March and 27 May 1963 and Gourlay told
10209-471: The resident engineer supervising Master Nicos ' construction was Victoria Drummond MBE , the first British woman to have qualified as a marine engineer. During and after the Second World War the demand for larger cargo ships increased. Burntisland's slipways and berths were limited in size, but in the 1950s the yard managed to build a number of ships of more than 450 feet (140 m) length and 60 feet (18.3 m) beam. Hull 347, launched in 1954 as
10332-605: The rest under house arrest under suspicion of piracy. The lawyer Thomas Hamilton arranged their release, arguing they had committed no crime and there was peace with Spain at the time. The town also became a major embarkation point for Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Thirty Years War , in October 1627 the Burgh Council complained to the Scottish Privy Council about the conduct of these troops. In 1633
10455-407: The roofless boiler house used as a park. An energy museum would also be housed inside the former station building. The restoration of the power station building would cost £150 million. A plastic built "eco-dome" was to be built to the east of the power station. This building was originally planned to have a large 300 m (980 ft) chimney, but this has now been abandoned in favour of
10578-475: The same customer in 1938. Before the end of 1951 the new Derrymore passed to O. Gross's Power Steam Ship Co as MV Huntsmore . Burntisland built three further ships for Power S.S. Co between 1954 and 1958. Hull 349 was launched in September 1952 as MV Master Nicos , an 8,453 GRT cargo ship for Motores Maritimos Compañía Limitada, a Greek-owned company registered in Costa Rica . From February 1952 until her launch
10701-505: The same owner in 1922 (see above). Hull 174 was launched in 1933 as London Queen , a 781 GRT coaster for the London and Channel Islands Shipping Company. Her owners became British Channel Islands Shipping Co, for whom Burntisland launched a further seven ships between 1937 and 1948. Hulls 178 and 179, launched in 1933 and 1934 as Pulborough and Petworth , were for Stephenson, Clarke and Associates . Burntisland went on to build eight ships for Stephenson, Clarke spread over nearly 30 years,
10824-423: The scheme was risky and would require over 2 million visitors a year to make any profit. The scheme received planning approval in May 1986 and the site was purchased by John Broome for £1.5 million in 1987. Work on converting the site began the same year. British Rail planned to procure three electric multiple unit trains, designated "Class 447", to run a shuttle service from London Victoria station to
10947-493: The second oldest highland games in the world, held on the third Monday every July. The Burntisland and District Pipe Band compete in Grade 3B after being promoted from Grade 4B after a successful 2014 season. The band are 2014 British, U.K and European and World Champions. The band is known throughout for its development with children in the local area, creating players that now compete in Grade 1 . A free live music festival, Live on
11070-414: The site into a retail, housing and leisure complex. During the Parkview era several masterplans for the site were developed by various architects and subsequently discarded. One notable plan, called simply "The Power Station", was masterminded by architect Nicholas Grimshaw . The scheme proposed a shopping mall, with 40 to 50 restaurants, cafés and bars, 180 shops, as well as nightclubs, comedy venues and
11193-411: The station for public use and build 3,400 homes on the site. This plan fell through due to REO's debt being called in by the state-owned banks of the UK and Ireland. The site was again put up for sale in December 2011 through commercial estate agent Knight Frank . The combination of an existing debt burden of £750 million, the need to make a £200 million contribution to an extension to
11316-431: The station on the condition that its emissions were to be treated, to ensure they were "clean and smokeless". Construction of the first phase (the A Station) began in March 1929. The main building work was carried out by John Mowlem & Co , and the structural steelwork erection carried out by Sir William Arrol & Co. Other contractors were employed for specialist tasks. Most of the electrical equipment, including
11439-546: The surrounding land for €532 million (£400 million). REO subsequently announced that the previous plan by Parkview had been dropped and that it had appointed the practice of the Uruguayan-born architect Rafael Viñoly of New York as the new master planner for the site. The centrepiece of this masterplan was a 980-foot-high "eco tower" that dwarfed the power station and was described by London's then mayor Boris Johnson as an "inverted toilet-roll holder". The tower
11562-486: The switching equipment from the control rooms in 'pods'. However, this plan was always unlikely to bear fruit due to the Grade II listing status of the building. In November 2008, Chelsea F.C. was reported to be considering moving to a new purpose built stadium at Battersea Power Station. The proposed stadium was to hold between 65,000 and 75,000 fans and feature a retractable roof. The proposals were designed by HOK Sport ,
11685-406: The theme park. The project was halted in March 1989, for lack of funding, after costs had quickly escalated that January, from £35 million to £230 million. By this point huge sections of the building's roof had been removed, so that machinery could be taken out. Without a roof, the building's steel framework had been left exposed and its foundations were prone to flooding. In March 1990,
11808-422: The top. The station also had jetty facilities for unloading coal, a coal sorting and storage area, control rooms and an administration block. The A Station generated electricity using three turbo alternators ; two 69 MW Metropolitan-Vickers British Thomson-Houston sets, and one 105 MW Metropolitan-Vickers set, totalling 243 MW. At the time of its commissioning, the 105 MW generating set
11931-511: The town. Burntisland has been twinned with Flekkefjord , Norway since 1946. Battersea Power Station Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames in Nine Elms , Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth . It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce , Engineer in Chief to
12054-400: The unit a rating of 72 MW. Combined, these gave the B station a generating capacity of 260 MW, making the site's generating capacity 503 MW. All of the station's boilers were made by Babcock & Wilcox , fuelled by pulverised coal from pulverisers also built by Babcock & Wilcox. There were nine boilers in the A station and six in the B station. The B station's boilers were
12177-414: The war (see below). Completion of MoWT orders continued after the surrender of Germany with the launches of hull 298 in May 1945 as the 1,337 GRT coaster Empire Pacific and finally hull 289 in July as the 7,134 GRT cargo ship MV Empire Calshot . Burntisland continued to build colliers after the war. Hulls 295 and 301, launched in 1946 as Chessington and Mitcham , were the last two flatirons for
12300-447: The west of Burntisland railway station lies the 9-span viaduct forming a significant feature in the harbour area of the town. Built in 1888 to carry the main railway line from Edinburgh to Dundee , it is now a Category C Listed structure , being a rare example of a surviving Town truss . From May to August the annual summer funfair , known as the Shows, comes to town and there is also
12423-451: The women were acting at the instigation of the townsmen including the minister Mr William Watson. Burntisland developed as a seaport, being second only to Leith in the Firth of Forth, and shipbuilding became an important industry in the town. James V improved the harbour in 1540 and named it "Our Lady Port". In 1544 it was defended by three artillery blockhouses. An English report mentions
12546-494: Was a 4,514 GRT cargo ship for Canadian Pacific Steamships . Hulls 407 and 408, launched in 1964 as MV Newfoundland and MV Nova Scotia , were a pair of 6,660 GRT sister ships for Furness Withy . Hulls 414 and 415 were also coastal tankers, built as specialist liquid gas carriers. The sister ships were launched for the Nile Steam Ship Co as MV Teviot in 1965 and MV Traquair in 1966 respectively. Burntisland also built
12669-520: Was a 4,799 GRT cargo ship for McCowen and Gross of London. Burntisland went on to build a further five ships for McCowen and Gross between 1938 and 1951. During the Second World War Burntisland continued to concentrate on building merchant ships. However, in 1943 it also built three Loch-class frigates : HMS Loch Fyne , HMS Loch Killin and HMS Loch Glendhu . In May 1941 Burntisland launched hull 233 as Merton ,
12792-531: Was also the most thermally efficient power station in the world when it opened. The A Station had been operated by the London Power Company, but by the time the B Station was completed, the UK's electric supply industry had been nationalised , and ownership of the two stations had passed into the hands of the British Electricity Authority in 1948. On 20 April 1964, a fire at the power station caused power failures throughout London, including at
12915-421: Was an important factor from when the station was in the design stages, as it was one of the main concerns of the protesters. The London Power Company developed an experimental technique for washing flue gases in 1925. It used water and alkaline sprays over scrubbers of steel and timber in flue ducts. The gases were subject to continuous washing; as to the principal acid pollutant by using the catalyst iron oxide ,
13038-562: Was built in 1592 by a Dutch architect dedicated to St Columba on a small hill overlooking the sea. In 1601 it was the meeting place of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland due to an outbreak of plague in the usual venue in Edinburgh . Many attendees would have come by sea. The Assembly was attended by King James VI . It is said that it was at this Assembly that the King requested that
13161-422: Was chosen for its proximity to the River Thames for cooling water and coal delivery, and because it was in the heart of London, the station's immediate supply area. The proposal sparked protests from those who felt that the building would be too large and would be an eyesore, as well as worries about the pollution damaging local buildings, parks and even paintings in the nearby Tate Gallery . The company addressed
13284-421: Was closed. In 1990 under new owners Burntisland West Dock resumed the production of major offshore oil and gas fabrications. Industry related to North Sea oil remains important for the town. In 2001 a management buyout took over the yard as Burntisland Fabrications or BiFab. BiFab describes itself as the only major fabricator continuing in production in Scotland since 2005. A plant for the refining of alumina
13407-454: Was designed by John Henderson and completed in 1846. Burntisland became an important port for the local herring and coal industries, and in 1847 the Edinburgh and Northern Railway opened from Burntisland north to Lindores and Cupar . By 1850 the world's first roll-on/roll-off rail ferry service was crossing the Firth of Forth between Burntisland and Granton , enabling goods wagons to travel between Edinburgh and Dundee without
13530-411: Was designed to maximise fuel economy. The popularity of this design helped the yard to survive the Great Depression . In the Second World War the yard continued to concentrate on merchant ships but also built three Loch class frigates : HMS Loch Killin (K391) , HMS Loch Fyne (K429) and HMS Loch Glendhu (K619) . By 1961 the shipyard had 1,000 workers but in 1968
13653-517: Was held by the Jacobite army for over two months during the rising known as the Fifteen. The Jacobites first of all raided the port on 2 October 1715, capturing several hundred weapons, then occupied it on 9 October. In September 1844 a new pier was completed to form a ferry link to the new harbour at Granton, Edinburgh . It was built by local builder Peter Penny (1803-1866). Burntisland Burgh Chambers
13776-526: Was hull 377, launched in 1956 as TSS Sunvictor for Skibs A/S Geirulv (Gjeruldsen & Tambs) of Arendal , Norway. Her turbine was built by Scotts of Greenock on the River Clyde . In the 1950s Burntisland suffered a number of cancelled orders. Hull 365 was cancelled in 1954 and hull 368 in 1955, but worse came with the cancellation of six hulls in 1959–60. The first three cancelled hulls were all for Power S.S. Co. in about 1959. The last cancellation
13899-508: Was hull 396 for Prince Line in about 1960. This left hull 395, launched as the 4,800 GRT MV Lancastrian Prince , as Burntisland's last completed order for Prince Line. By 2 July 1959 Burntisland Shipbuilding had laid off 100 workers and it was rumoured in the House of Commons that the company was to close down. On 30 October 1959 a new Labour MP, Harry Gourlay , whose Kirkcaldy Burghs constituency included Burntisland, made his maiden speech to
14022-471: Was later responsible for the Assembly Hall at Filton . J. Theo Halliday was employed as architect, with Halliday & Agate employed as a sub-consultant. Halliday was responsible for the supervision and execution of the appearance of the exterior and interior of the building. Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was involved in the project much later on, consulted to appease public reaction, and referred to in
14145-403: Was not completed until 1935. The total cost of its construction was £2,141,550. Between construction beginning in 1929 and 1933, there were six fatal and 201 non-fatal accidents on the site. After the end of the Second World War, construction began on the second phase, the B Station. The station came into operation gradually between 1953 and 1955. It was nearly identical to the A Station from
14268-452: Was opened by Alcan early in the 20th century and closed in 2002, the land now used for housing. The pre-Reformation church (known as Kirkton church) lies on Church Street and served until 1592, at which point it was abandoned. It was ruinous by 1700 but was used for burials until the mid-20th century. The main body of the church serves as a burial vault to the local family Aytoun (Ayton) of Grange. A new church, Burntisland Parish Church ,
14391-530: Was part of the lands of Dunfermline belonging to Anne of Denmark . In April 1615 there was a riot in broad daylight against one of her legal officers by a crowd of over a hundred women who took his letters and threw stones at him. The rioters were "of the bangster Amasone kind" led by the wife of the Baillie of Burntisland according to the Chancellor Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline , who supposed
14514-400: Was paused owing to the worsening effects of the Second World War . The building was completed in 1955. "Battersea B" was built to a design nearly identical to that of "Battersea A", creating the iconic four-chimney structure. "Battersea A" was decommissioned in 1975. In 1980 the whole structure was given Grade II listed status ; "Battersea B" shut three years later. In 2007 its listed status
14637-461: Was planned for the Battersea area, on the south bank of the River Thames in London. The proposal was made in 1927, for a station built in two stages and capable of generating 400 megawatts (MW) of electricity when complete. The site chosen was a 15-acre (61,000 m ) plot of land which had been the site of the reservoirs for the former Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company . The site
14760-420: Was quickly dropped from the scheme. Jersey law firms, Ogier, Carey Olsen and Mourant Oxannes helped REO to raise funds for the new Battersea Power Station redevelopment. The plans included reusing part of the station building as a power station, fuelled by biomass and waste . The station's existing chimneys would be utilised for venting steam. The former turbine halls would be converted to shopping spaces, and
14883-410: Was the largest in Europe. The B Station also had three turbo alternators, all made by Metropolitan-Vickers . This consisted of two units which used 16 MW high-pressure units exhausting to a 78 MW and associated with a 6 MW house alternator, giving these units a total rating of 100 MW. The third unit consisted of a 66 MW machine associated with a 6 MW house alternator, giving
15006-411: Was upgraded to Grade II*. The station is one of the world's largest brick buildings, and notable for its original, lavish Art Deco interior fittings and decor. The structure remained largely unused for more than 30 years after its closure; in 2008 its condition was described as "very bad" by English Heritage , which included it in its Heritage at Risk Register . The site was also listed on
15129-498: Was upgraded to Grade II*. The building remained empty until 2014, during which time it fell into near ruin. Various plans were made to make use of the building, but none were successful. In 2012, administrators Ernst & Young entered into an agreement with Malaysia's S P Setia and Sime Darby to develop the site to include residential, bars, restaurants, office space (occupied by Apple and others), shops and entertainment spaces. The plans were approved and redevelopment commenced
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