Light go out in giant old Portsmouth power plant | Nostalgia
Remember 1983? It was the year we said a dusty farewell to the power station in Old Portsmouth.
It had dominated the city’s skyline, and especially the harbour mouth, for so long that we seemed bereft without it.
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