POWER GENERATION
The rapidity of twentieth century change is marked in this window. The majesty of St. Paul's, built in times of candlepower and oil lamps, still dominates the city scene to retain perspective and the dignity of other times. But electric power now reaches every corner of the country in lines of treelike pylons stretching across the landscape. Bankside Power Station, was a vital source of generation of such power for London, but the life-span of this remarkable edifice, ( twin to Gilbert Scott's Liverpool Cathedral ) was but twenty-one years, before technical know-how moved electric power generation to other more economic sites and left a range of new site possibilities, making way for the proclaimed Tate Modern Museum to open there in 2000, following the Coin St. developments, the Globe Theatre, the Greater London Authority headquarters and the footbridge to St Paul's. All these pioneered remarkable new activities along the riverside, spanning the millennium years of expectation. Power generation is resonant with implications for those who take faith in the economy seriously.
