River Thames

Inside Bankside Power Station

Bankside Power Station is a former oil-fired power station, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. It generated electricity from 1952 to 1981. Since 2000, this amazing industrial structure has been used to house the Tate Modern art museum.

Bankside Power Station in the late 1950s.

The interior of Bankside Power Station, now Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall