The club have consistently affirmed their desire to keep Chelsea at their current home, but Chelsea have nonetheless been linked with a move to various nearby sites, including the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Battersea Power Station and the Chelsea Barracks.

In May 2012, the club made a formal bid to purchase Battersea Power Station, with a view to developing the site into a 60, 000 seater stadium.

The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.

There were events in Poplar ( Architecture ), Battersea ( The Festival Pleasure Gardens ), South Kensington ( Science ) and Glasgow ( Industrial Power ).

" The cover of the novel conjures images of the attack as it shows an old picture of two of the chimneys of London's Battersea Power Station with an aeroplane above them.

Battersea Power Station

In 1929, construction started on Battersea Power Station, being completed in 1939.

Going towards Vauxhall off the Wandsworth Road is the Patmore Estate which is in close proximity to the Battersea Power Station.

* Battersea Power Station an iconic edifice designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, built between 1929 and 1939 ( featured, with flying pig, on the sleeve art of Pink Floyd's album Animals ).

" British rock group Pink Floyd featured an inflatable flying pig over the Battersea Power Station on the cover of their 1977 album Animals.

It has a similar monumental impressiveness to Gilbert Scott's other local buildings, Battersea Power Station and the Tate Modern, although its simplicity is partly the result of repeated budget cuts during its construction: much more detail, including carved Gothic stonework surrounding the windows, was originally planned.

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM ( 9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960 ) was an English architect known for his work on such structures as Liverpool Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge and Battersea Power Station and designing the iconic red telephone box.

Battersea Power Station

In 1930 the London Power Company engaged Scott as consulting architect for its new electricity generating station at Battersea.

Battersea Power Station, opened in 1933 but disused since 1982, remains one of the most conspicuous industrial buildings in London.

In a poll organised by The Architectural Review in 1939 to find what lay people thought were Britain's best modern buildings, Battersea Power Station was in second place, behind the Peter Jones building.

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* Footage of Battersea Power Station Fire in 1964

Several stages and areas are managed independently, such as The Left Field which is managed by a cooperative owned by Battersea and Wandsworth TUC, Worthy FM and a field run by Greenpeace.

Battersea is an area of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England.

Although in modern times it is known mostly for its wealth, Battersea remains characterised by spates of inequality, with infamous and deprived council estates such as the Winstanley estate surrounding more prosperous areas.

Battersea is mentioned in Anglo-Saxon time as Badrices īeg = " Badric's Island " and later " Patrisey ".

Battersea is dominated by four main housing estates.

Winstanley is situated behind Clapham Junction railway station in the northern perimeter of Battersea.

Further north towards Chelsea is the Surrey Lane Estate, and situated on Battersea Park Road is the Doddington and Rollo Estate.

The former Battersea Town Hall, opened in 1893, is now the Battersea Arts Centre.

Battersea is part of London on the south bank of the River Thames.

Its north eastern corner is one mile ( 1. 6 km ) due south of the Palace of Westminster ; the north western corner is demarcated by Wandsworth Bridge and Battersea tapers south to a point roughly three miles ( 5 km ) from the north eastern corner and two miles ( 3 km ) from the north west.

The recently-opened London Overground station, although geographically close, cannot be reached directly on foot as it is on the opposite side of the River Thames, but via Wandsworth Bridge or Battersea Bridge.

Battersea is a title of a Hooverphonic song, and also appears in a title of a Super Furry Animals ' song-" Battersea Odyssey.

" The song " Battersea " is the opening track of Jimi Jamison's 2008 solo album Crossroads Moment.

Battersea is also the setting for Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel, Offshore.

Another possibility is that the Northern Line may be extended to Camberwell, once the line has been extended to Battersea.

Clapham Junction railway station is located in Battersea, rather than Clapham.

The London Heliport, London's main and busiest heliport is located in Battersea.