American Couple Reacts: Battersea Power Station Converted: LUXURY MALL & MORE! FIRST TIME REACTION!!
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- American Couple Reacts: Battersea Power Station Converted: LUXURY MALL & MORE! FIRST TIME REACTION!! We LOVED this! The FIRST Video we ever did that we actually forgot for a bit that we were doing our own CZcams video! We had no idea what we were in store for! It's been a 40 year process and cost over 9 BILLION to convert Battersea Power Station (in London) into a: Shopping mall, Restaurants, Cinema, Apartments, Hotels and so much more! This place is incredible! We really had fun watching and learning about everything. We truly felt like we were actually there! Let us know if you have been or plan to go. It's only been open for about 6 months now. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! More Links below...
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We LOVED this! The FIRST Video we ever did that we actually forgot for a bit that we were doing our own CZcams video! We had no idea what we were in store for! It's been a 40 year process and cost over 9 BILLION to convert Battersea Power Station (in London) into a: Shopping mall, Restaurants, Cinema, Apartments, Hotels and so much more! This place is incredible! We really had fun watching and learning about everything. We truly felt like we were actually there! Let us know if you have been or plan to go. It's only been open for about 6 months now. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
OMG. This makes me want to travel from Australia to my place of birth( Beckenham Kent) then make a side trip to this place!!!
@@antheabrouwer3258 Your shock reaction at the cost of the Battersea conversion, would have been even bigger if you'd realised that the cost was in UK POUNDS not US dollars, so £9,000,000,000 is over $11,000,000,000.
They spoke about doing something with the power station for 40 years as it was closed in 1983, It was originally going to be the location for Disneyland Europe, but the real construction of the site didn't start until around 10 years ago
Please please do a Paul O'Grady reaction (RIP)
Going back to the real world for a moment - on the other side of the river is the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home - the rescue centre which is 162 years old.
I helped build that, I was there from the very beginning when the first bit of concrete was poured for the piling, up until the RC frame was built and on to the brick work, I was the crane coordinator, I remember the replacement of the old chimneys 😊
Will!!! That's so cool!!! Excellent job!! ❤
Amazing
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Great Reaction for this South West London Project costing £9 Billion but there are bigger and smaller Projects all over Inner London,in particular.I used to live on a Social Housing Council Estate near The Elephant and Castle less than 2 miles, South East, of Central London, and with a discount around 40 years ago, many residents could buy their property for, as little, as £12,000. Now there is a TWENTY BILLION Project and those homes have gone and some of the newer flats cost up to £1,000,000 !! 😀
I ALMOST worked there. Back in my truck driving days, I was due to start working for some carriers, who were part of a sub-contract. It was part of the piling operation inside the main building, and all of the augers for drilling the piles, plus the steel reinforcement had to be stored off site, about half a mile away. Just when it was required, the augers and/ or steels had to be loaded onto trailers and transported the short distance to site, then the 'old' stuff taken away. Probably a lot of sitting around during a 12 hr shift, & about 3-4 miles driving. Still the pay was good..
I got the induction, the medicals, photos, fingerprints, and my pass [ which I still have ], but suddenly the job didn't go ahead. The storage yard was close to residential dwellings, and we were the 'night shift', so maybe objections put a stop to it.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Can't wait for you to come to UK.
My Grandfather was the main supervisor/foreman for Battersea Power Station, his job was so important that he wasn't allowed to enlist for the Second World War, something which left him feeling like he wasn't doing his duty as all his friends went off to War. He'd be very impressed that it now has a new lease of life.
It looks fantastic and I'll definitely be visiting soon.
Great video Guys. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My Grandfather actually worked at Battersea and I still have his securty whistle that he had to have on him while working. He was an Eastender born and bred; I am so happy that so much of its history has been preserved as it was and is an iconic building.
Its in the south west end of London
I just have to say, that the developer needs congratulating for the sympathetic way they've kept the history intact and haven't ripped the heart out of it like so many others. Well done.
Coming from that area and having numerous generations going back centuries I can say that's incorrect. The whole of London has had its heart ripped out.
They probably weren’t allowed to, the power station is a listed building, so the changes to its external and to some extent ,internal, appearance would have either been forbidden or limited, hence no external signage.
@@tobytaylor2154 I agree with you, but I was referring to the building not the area in general. I know what you mean as my great-grandfather used to be the head gardner at Battersea gardens.
Most of the building was an empty shell, pretty much gutted decades ago. None of the chimneys are original, they are all replacements. Used to live in the estate opposite which was heated by the “waste” from the station. Just after it shut we went round the building and it was so sad seeing it decades after just before they started work on the area, was like a bomb site.
Given it's Grade II* listed status, the developer didn't have much choice when it came to retaining features, thankfully.
Part of the £9 billion cost was a 2 station tube branch line built as part of building the shopping centre. The terminal station is called "Battersea Power Station station".
Current conversion rate would make it $11,163,825,000.00!!!
That's not going to fit on the signposts too easily!
Just wonderful! This was an iconic landmark in London that featured on a Pink Floyd album cover. It looks far more interesting than the London Eye. Another power station has been transformed into the Tate Modern (modern art museum which is free).
Oooh yes!!!! I didn't realize that was the same building on the Animals album!!!
I do miss the inflatable flying pig though! 😂
The inflatable pig on the chimney for the "Animals" album broke free & floated across London until it became dangerous to aviation & was shot down.
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Great Reaction for this South West London Project costing £9 Billion but there are bigger and smaller Projects all over Inner London,in particular.I used to live on a Social Housing Council Estate near The Elephant and Castle less than 2 miles, South East, of Central London, and with a discount around 40 years ago, many residents could buy their property for, as little, as £12,000. Now there is a TWENTY BILLION Project and those homes have gone and some of the newer flats cost up to £1,000,000 !! 😀
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches Apologies,I stand corrected.
The shops he mentioned like Boots and superdrug are where us mere mortals shop, buying stuff you can actually afford, well used to.
Thise 4 chimneys are an icinic view of London. They could never be removed. They have been part of my life for more than 70yrs!
If you do visit, don’t forget that Battersea Dog and Cat Home is only a few hundred yards away from the Power Station.
Novelty attractions to visit in the North of England:
Eden Camp - WW2 history museum. Experience what life was like during WW2 in Britain. Kids go on school trips here to learn about the history but even as an adult, its still one of my favourite places to go. Cant wait to take my son next year.
Beamish - open air museum. Experience what life was like in Northern England from 1820-1950s. See old coal mines, schools, homes, toys, sweet shops, old cinemas etc. Nice thing with this is that its an interactive museum- you dont just wander round looking at things, you take part. So if you ever fancied a go at a spinning top (aka whipping top) a kids playground game/toy, you can have a go in an old style school playground.
Actually the song "Electric Avenue" (written, recorded and produced by British singer and songwriter Eddy Grant), refers to a road named Electric Avenue in London, and to the 1981 'Brixton Riots' in that district - it is only about 4 miles distance between Brixton and Battersea (both on the South side of the river Thames).
It was named Electric Avenue because it was one of the first streets to be lit by electricity!
@@OC35 - Absolutely correct. As you say, not the first street in Britain to be lit by electricity (that was in Newcastle upon Tyne) - But Electric Avenue was the first 'market street' to be lit by electric lights!
Beat me to it !
Cool 😎❤
Love that song ❤
I am 33 miles from London and went there first time in Sept 2023, it is STUNNINGLY awesome in real life, truly epic
A proud Brit,but no idea about this,well done to the developers,and thank you ladies, sending love ❤
I have an ear worm now. Ta very much Natasha😊 Eddy Grant 🎵🎶🎤 all bloody day now.😂
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40 people: That building's on the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album.
Me: That control room's on the cover of Hawkwind's Quark, Strangeness and Charm album.
I love the into. I thought i had clicked on something else for a min then I read the comments 😂I’m English and I never knew nothing about this mall in Battersea. U learn something new everyday 👍
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The architect for Battersea Power Station was Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who also responsible for the iconic K2 Red phone box.
Really??? Freaking genius
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow He also designed Liverpool Cathedral which has a phone box inside. Lots on CZcams EG This one visits both cathedrals. czcams.com/video/Lfvtg_5UsBU/video.html
He was also the architect of Bankside Power Station, a bit further downstream, which has also been preserved and converted into a prestigious art gallery, the Tate Modern, which complements the Tate Britain Gallery on the other side of the river where the Tate's non-modern fine art collection is on display.
Scott's other major creation was Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral (begun in 1904, completed in 1978), the largest religious building in the UK and eighth largest church in the world.
He also designed the new House of Commons chamber including its internal fixtures and fittings and adjacent lobbies in the Palace of Westminster after they were destroyed by German bombing in WWII.
He was the grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott, two of whose masterpieces was the huge frontage of St Pancras Station in London, a station often compared to a cathedral; and the the huge neo-gothic Albert Memorial opposite the Royal Albert Hall.
Morning girls Richard the London black cab driver here. I pick up and drop off their often and it's an outstanding complex. Back in the day Margaret Thatcher was going to make it into the European version of Disney world. All the best girls x
The owners of Alton Towers were going to turn it in to a theme part of some sort, but pulled out of the deal.
Suprised you two have never investigated the Battersea Dogs and Cats home. It has been going over 100yrs. The lovely Paul O'Grady (who passed very recently) had a tv programme called " For the love of Dogs", he was a champion and volunteer.
We have!!! czcams.com/video/cIYdlsjjogs/video.html
It's next door to it
Shopping malls are dying here too, so is the high street. Many towns that were once a hub of activity are becoming ghost towns. I personally hate shopping malls and much preferred shopping in towns. We had some lovely market towns and you were out in the fresh air.
I agree Dee, modern supermarkets and shopping arcades have killed of the high street shops, and as you say many once bustling towns are now becoming ghost towns.
There still are markets
I remember Battersea power station very well me my brothers and sister used to play near there. When I heard the news they turned it into a shopping centre I nearly died. They should have left the power station there it was a beautiful piece of architecture wonder of it's era. since the shopping centre has been built I've never been there and I don't think I ever Will. from 🇬🇧 an old cockney gal 😄👍👍
Marie Fletcher ... I couldn't agree with you more, I'd have to be brown bread before they could drag me into that place, plus that's one place you won't find a pie and mash shop.
I did all the fancy brickwork floor in the place , during the covid crisis, elton john owns an apartment up there
I love your Union Terminal building! It's gorgeous!!
It really is!
I’m a Brit & had zero idea about this either- I only know Battersea from the famous Battersea dogs & cats home! It looks absolutely mind blowing!! Fantastic vid and reactions as always ladies!
I didnt here about it either I must have been hiding under a stone last year Fab conversion, I'm really impressed . Thank you ladies for bringing it to my attention xx
Just before it closed in the early 80's and whilst it had all the original equipment in it, they had it open to the public for tours. I was fortunate enough to go on one and it was amazing. The size of the turbines were unbelievable and in Turbine Hall "A" it was all art deco. In the control room they had some TVs and they would have them on so that just before an add break they could boost the power as millions of people would be popping to the kitchen to make a cuppa!!
Same here, we lived in Churchill gardens. Saw it years later after it had been gutted
Regarding the apartments in and around the old power station, they go from around £145,000 for a 550 sq ft 1 bed to £2.5m for an 11th floor 1,500 sq ft 2 bed. The biggest, most expensive apartments (over £10m) were sold off-plan (mainly to "investors" from India and the far-east) a long time ago.
Had no idea what they’d done to Battersea. Thanks so much ladies that was amazing😊
❤️❤️ thank YOU for watching
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Welcome. A nice start to Sunday 😉
WOW WOW WOW. I was outraged when they originally said how much it cost but WOW what brilliant place.
A large part of that cost would pf been due to the fact they had to build new tube network lines and station for the tube stop called Battersea Power Station Station. I'd imagine that woulda cost a pretty hefty sum to do.
Hello, Natasha and Debbie. I’ve been watching your videos for a while now and I’ve been enjoying watching your reactions to all sorts of stuff. I’ve lived in Battersea my whole life and I currently live in one of the new (non-luxury) developments a few minutes walk from the Power Station. I have mixed feelings about the redevelopment. While I’m glad that the site is finally open and is actually being used for something, I do think it was a missed opportunity to create a mixed use development that could have featured affordable housing (including social/subsidised rent), community space, green areas and cultural/art facilities. It could have been a South London equivalent to the Kings Cross Central development that has transformed Kings Cross and St Pancras in Central London. Instead, we’ve ended up with a luxury shopping mall surrounded on almost all sides by ugly expensive apartments that do not complement the existing urban environment at all. It could have been so much more. Anyway, rant over. Keep up the good work!
I did a bunjee jump from the old Battersea Power Station back in 1999. They had a bunjee jump and a catapult set up right over the Thames! I love that place.. glad they done something with it.. as a West Londoner - that is one of my favourite landmarks and is part of the London Skyline!
I used to work around there when it was a functioning power station. We used to refer to the bad egg coal dust smell as 'The Battersea Pong'.
Hello Lady's, I'm so glad and proud that you are impressed with the iconic Battersea Power Station.I was born in Battersea and the power station had been derelict as far back as I can remember and I'm 63.If you do get to London which I hope you do here is a day out for you. Within 2 miles 2 1/2 at a stretch you could first take in The Chelsea flower show ( Depending on the time of year you visit) Then shoot over Chelsea Bridge down to Battersea Dogs home on Nine Elms Lane,and next-door is Battersea Power Station and if that's not enough for you, come out back on to Nine Elms Lane walk down and New Covent Garden the Larder of London.And to cap it off the New American Embassy at Embassy Gardens.There you go Bob's yer Uncle Fanny's yer Aunt enjoy😊
Great to see development but London doesn’t need more and more, being from Battersea you must have seen the communities leaving in their thousands. It’s become obscene now the investment in London while the rest of the UK stays under funded.
@studio7651 I'm proud the building still stands and a lot of of the original features and working parts are still on show.But believe me you will never see me eat fish n chips at £22 a pop.I totally agree with you on the development side of things,but whilst you have a Prime Minister who when Chancellor thought it was better to give the money to Royal Tunbridge Wells instead of to a poorer part of England then that's corrupt. Yes a lot of people have left Battersea but they saw an opportunity to get out of London it's not all milk and honey here.
Did you miss the bit out that said "if you have any legs left after going to the Flower Show..."? because seriously, if you can move at all after walking round there you deserve a gold medal! 🤣
@carolineb3527 I get your drift,but I was thinking a stroll over Chelsea Bridge pit stop at the Tea Stall refuel.Looks like the 137 and an Oyster Card then🤣👍Thanks for the reply.
@@studio-flash I think most of the existing houses and flats have not been demolished in Battersea (well not since the 1970s), with the newer developments coming on former industrial lands / gasworks / nine elms goods yard
In the dim and distant past I went round Battersea Power Station when it was still doing its original job as part of a school trip. I'm so glad it's been given a new lease of life, it's a stunning building.
The man who designed Battersea Power station was Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. He also designed the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral which is the largest protestant cathedral in the world and the 5th largest cathedral in the world. It is worth searching CZcams for the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral (not to be confused with the Liverpool Catholic Cathedral) as it is breathtaking.
Giles Gilbert Scott also designed the old-fashioned British red telephone boxes.
Hi girls, Jensen Motors is quite an old marque, dating from when the Jensen brothers took over their old employer in 1935. Their most famous model was the Jensen Interceptor FF, the first car in the world to introduce permanent four wheel drive and ABS brakes. There were discussions at the film company ATT about whether James Bond would drive a Jensen Interceptor or an Aston Martin DB4.
Didn't Mad Max tool around in an Interceptor?
@@alisonrodger3360 The car in the original Mad Max was referred to as "the last of the V8 Interceptors". It was actually a highly modified Ford Falcon XB GT.
@@nicksykes4575 Wha! After all these years .... :-D
Anyone else think of Pink Floyd when they see the outside?
Near to there is Battersea dogs home you need to check that out as you will love it being dog fans
Great video. The only thing it needed was a little clip at the start going into the history of the power station. When it was built, some footage of when it was ACTUALLY a power station. But other than that, great video. 👍🏻
As usual you pulled it out of the bag. My husband worked sadly not in but in a building on the side for Thames water and before we married I was lucky enough to visit and it is huge. I watch Tim on his travels and he goes to some lovely places not only here in the UK but other countries, you might enjoy watching him. And yes he loves a nice smell. Well done girlies. Xx
What an amazing place! I loved the digital light shows, they were very impressive! The views from the top of the building were spectacular. I really enjoyed this. Thanks! 😃
Glad you enjoyed it as much as us!!
Good morning folks, Dave from Plymouth here. Love waking up to your positive content. In a increasingly dark world, you are both a Ray of light, keep up the great work, I appreciate you both, and the work you put in x
That's so kind, thank you 😊 ❤
Hi Girls - when I was a kid going to school at Blackfriars in London in the 1970s, both Battersea and Bankside (now the Tate Modern gallery) were still working power stations. Amazing to see their final transformation!
The apartments for sale start at £640,000 for a studio rising to £8,500,000 for a 3 bed.
It's amazing - my friend went back in November '22 just after it opened and she loved it. She went on the Tower tour and went up in the lift - she said that everyone in the lift said "WOW" when they emerged in the viewing tower and said that the views of London are spectacular.
My mother is from England, and when we visited several times in the 1970's and early 1980's we stayed with my mother's cousin in Battersea (she herself was from Battersea, although her mother lived in a different area near Lavender Hill IIRC). The power station was clearly visible from Battersea Park, where we went to walk around and play. My sister and I called it the Battersea Air Polluter.
Wow that trip up the chimney looked amazing, well worth £15!
I think he quoted £9Bn to develop the site ($11.2Bn).
In the late 80s, the previous owner removed the roof and exposed the turbine hall to the elements, before running out of money to develop it; this Grade II* Listed Building was almost lost!
Girls the song Electric Avenue is about a Street in Brixton South East of Battersea that from the 1950's up to the 90's was settled by the British West Indian Comunity & was the source of British Reggae Music.
Boots the Chemist (Drugstore) and the others he mentioned are regular shops that most people can afford. It's so nice to see it finally revamped like this! It's been sitting empty and abandoned for so long, like a gutted-out shell of a building; and for so long it was a symbol of a run-down, derelict area. I never thought it would get done, but now it has, it's fantastic! And even the surrounding area is nice - I guess they had to make them expensive apartments to break even
I miss the scrapyards , coach and bus parking and car repair garages so it was hardly a abandoned area
I was a white van man delivering goods to the power station and took photos of its progress from 2013. I planned on taking photos till its completion but had a heart attack 2 years ago and had to retire so didn't get to complete my album. Would love to go there to see it complete but don't get to London any more. Thanks for this reaction it was great to watch
As you said, that is awesome. I worked in London when they shut down the power station in 1983 and it was left standing empty for decades. It is truly wonderful what they have done with the space.
Wow hadn't seen inside it before, brilliant video and now added to the must visit list :-) thank you both.
Wow what an amazing place that apparently smells nice lol. Looking forward to the next video x
😆 🤣 smells amazing 😆
Thanks Kelly! ❤️
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow just had a look and if you put in the search engine on CZcams Beamish Museum there’s a few videos on it including one from an American tourist. I think Debbie will love the old fashioned sweet shop
Pink Floyd Animals album cover. Miss the pig balloon.
Sure has changes since the mid-seventies. LOL !
Nice to see the kept the exterior unaltered.
We went a few months ago. Stunning conversion of an amazing building but surrounded by lots of empty luxury apartments probably foreign owned. Soulless.
Glad you both liked Battersea Power Station, I was born just along the road from the Power Station. It might interest you to know that Electric Avenue, as named in the song is a couple of miles up the road from Battersea in Brixton. Hope you manage to get over and see it for real.
I HAVE to go up in that lift! 😮 And so do you two ladies... its way past time you should have come to visit our shores! ❤
We will!
Battersea Power Station is a grade 2 listed building, that means the building cannot be demolished also a grade 2 listing means the outside cannot be altered in any way but the inside can
Hello Natasha and Debbie, really enjoyed your video on Battersea Power Station.
This is a very important part of my family history coming from London, my grandad worked in the power station during World War 2, it is fabulous to see what they have done to it, definitely on my list of places to visit.
Your Grandad had to be a tough, cool guy!!! Great history, bet he would have been impressed with what they did
Where did you move out to Denise,please?
Just when you thought London couldn't get any cooler.... And if you thought you recognised the building, it's the one on the cover of a Pink Floyd album.
It’s so nice to see it all developed. The amount of times I’ve got the train into London, going right past Battersea power station, it used to just be derelict, which was sad to see as it’s absolutely humongous.
Yes it’s great to see, just a pity that money is only spent in these amounts on London, it’s become obscene.
@@studio-flash true! And that I’ll never be able to afford so much as a cupboard anywhere near it. Lol
A few of these big power stations were built in the 1930s right in the centre of London. The pollution they produced caused the famous London smogs; when you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face.
It's a fantastic building! I went to see The Prodigy outside Battersea Power Station!
I was just shouting at the screen "15 quid for a LIFT?" - Then I saw that glass lift and I was like... Ooooh. I'd pay that 🤣
I live 50 miles from London and pass it on the train when I go up there to see the sights once a year. I didn't know about this other than the chimneys were replaced and there are very expensive flats around it. Thanks to you who live thousands of miles away I now do know about the shops and lift and will go there soon! 🙂
The funnier thing, is the northern tube extension to Battersea is the name of that station, "Battersea Power Station" Station without the quote marks. The first station is part of the place name, the 2nd station what it is a tube station.
I remember Battersea Power Station when it was derelict many years ago when nobody knew what to do with it. There was also a smaller power station down river which is now Tate Modern Art Gallery with free admission, well worth seeing. Battersea Power Station is now on the London Underground with a new station opened a year ago.
Land around Battersea Power Station was used for filming "Full Metal Jacket"
After the power station changed it's original use it was a Tate modern gallery for some time. Fish and chips with mushy peas and gravy is how we eat them up North where I live and enough for 2 in 1 portion - £8.50.
How awesome for an old industrial building to be put to such a use with such imagination and respect for its former life. 😲
Hi guys. Battersea is a nice cool place to visit. I’ve just got back from NY and I couldn’t believe how expensive it is compared to London.
Agree, was in NY last year.... prices were astronomically high. Budget was shot in days.
Its great to think that my country as reused a building instead of knocking it down. It looks great
Always enjoy your reactions.Lived in the flats opposite the BPS for a while back in the day,complete opposite of luxury,believe me..big up the Chels
Well this is unexpected. Used to take the kids to the park next to it. It is a huge building. Never thought it'd become a mall. Thought it was a protected historical site, guess that's part reason for the 9 billion.
I went to New York When I was younger in the mid seventies and went to the top of the Empire State Building but I fell in love with the Chrysler Building.
Never heard of union terminal, looks very cool.
I have stayed in the hotel next to the power station. I could see work happening, great to see it.
Haha. The song is “Electric Avenue”.
It's impressive it's worth visiting when one flies over
If someone hasn't pointed it out in the comments, The new American Embassy is just yards away...My father worked in the station when it was a working station. Battersea is my home town.
I live only 45 miles away from there and this is the first time I've seen it. I'll be visiting it very soon.
I actually worked on the power station when the project first started . It’s amazing to see the transformation
Thank you for reacting to this. I knew the shopping mall had opened but had no idea they had so much of the original power station to view. Such an iconic structure. I know where I’ll be next weekend. Fantastic video
Now that you’ve found Tims videos, there’s one he dropped the other day you may like. He stayed on the Norfolk coast in an actual windmill you can stay in. It’s fabulous ❤
Natasha I love your tshirt, an aunt and uncle from Ohio came to the uk and he brought some buckeye’s and as he walked out the airport he saw hundreds of horse chestnut trees here and realised he was looking at same tree, they went into the first bin lol
Haha! Well he shouldn't have! They are both in the same tree family but although they have many similar attributes, they aren't the same!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow we actually play conker fights with the nuts lol
Google pig over battersea power station.... Pink Floyd did it in the 70's. It got away and ended up in Kent. (happy days).
I grew up near there. I can't see that mall lasting long if it only has high-end shops. All the brands there are also on the other side of the river in Chelsea and Mayfair, and i expect the rents on those shops are enormous. People will come to look around the Power Station without spending any money.
I suspect the only people that will shop there are those with lots of money, if they can afford to live along the river front or in central and west London, then they can afford to shop in this shopping centre. I suspect it'll be popular with the Arabs.
I still remember when this was a working power station lol.
£9 billion = roughly $11.4 billion.
I watched this area get developed. It was an amazing process to witness.
Hi Natasha and Debbie. Love watching your videos, so keep them coming. I was born very close to the power station and it powered our family home during my whole childhood. I can't believe the guy made that video without any reference to the cover if the Pink Floyd album cover Animals. The last time I went there (around 1997) it was a concert venue. I live a 125 miles away from Battersea now in a tiny village on the Dorset coast, so thankyou for taking me back to my busy London childhood.
Just to give you an idea of how things have changed : in 1977, I worked on a Battersea construction site, near the power station. One morning, during breakfast, one of the scaffolders told me he and his wife had just bought a small house, near the power station for £7,950! Ha! How things have changed! Next time I go home to South West London, I am definitely going to visit the old Power Station.
This looks very cool. I'm going to have to check it out next year when I'm in the UK.
I've seen London from the top of the Eye, which was incredible, but I can imagine the sight from the top of the chimney must be so much more! Don't forget to pre-order your tickets when you come to visit. Love from UK 🇬🇧
I did work in the power station. It was derelict mostly with just one area maintained. As the guy said they still had to provide steam to the apartments across the river. I went in twice a year to check the boiler's heating recording was accurate.
Ladies, Thankyou for this, I never even knew about this (for some reason)! I think because, as they said, 40 years in the making. For years they've said about this or that project, at the station and nothing ever came of it. It is amazing and done in a really sympathetic way, acknowledging all the history. You said about how empty iit was, I think that's probably because it's so high end and the cost of living crisis was just starting to bite, at that time. It would be lovely to see, but I couldn't afford anything!
You would have to look at the vid of the film of the building of the Churchill Estate in Pimlico in the 1950s for how the cooling water from the power station was used to warm the flats.
I visited in May after the Chelsea flower show - really amazing and deffo a willy wonka moment as you pop out on top! Its so well done - the centre itself is stunning and high end shopping - good underground rail link too! all the senses catered for!
I would be more than happy to live next door to the Battersea Power Station Mall. When I lived in Dubai I loved next door to the Dubai Mall, it was weird at first but you get used to it, I would watch the dancing fountains from my lounge or balcony and I could walk out of my apartment and be in the mall in less than 2 minutes and all the facilities and the best view of the fireworks at New Year without having to leave my apartment whilst others waited outside for hours and spent half the night trying to get back home. There are definitely some perks to living near these places.
Boots is a chemists, Superdrug is a similar store but cheaper, River Island and New Look are clothes stores.
I used to go past that building on the train to Victoria Station every week day on the way to work, when it was in near total ruin, it was just the 4 main exterior walls and the 4 towers that were left standing, (it couldn't be fully demolished as it was a graded national heritage site, therefore protected). The building was used to hold rave parties in its "open" state in the late 90's and earlier 2000's as it made a wonderfully eerie, foreboding backdrop to the hard, industrial electronic dance music.
In its working era, coal was used to fuel it's turbine generators. The coal was brough down the River Thames on barges when The Thames was used as a massive part of London's trade and industry, conveying goods before we relied on huge container ships, cargo planes and articulated trucks to bring industrial and consumer goods into the capital. Back then, London was heavily polluted and unfortunately that power station did its part. Some days the smog was so dense you could hardly see your hand in front of your face and we called those days "pea-soupers". Thankfully that's all over with, now.
The developers have done a terrific job on the place, then again for £9 billion it should be.
Thanks for a wonderfully natural and informative channel, guys.
All the best. 🇬🇧🇺🇸