Catalogue description Thorpe Power Station

See also N/TC 49/13, 49/15

See N/TC 49/15

The following items have been transferred to the National Archive for Electrical Science and Technology because their interest is general rather than local:

Foster Instrument Co. Ltd., Letchworth, Foster Practical Pyrometers Thermo-couple (stem) type, no. 65, undated

Negretti and Zambra, London, Engineering and Industrial Instruments, undated

The English Electric Co. Ltd. Volume of photographs of equipment manufactured by English Electric, undated

The Norwich Electricity Co. Ltd., was founded in 1893 to supply the City and County of Norwich with electricity. An extension order of 1898 added a number of areas surrounding Norwich to the company's area of supply. The Norwich Corporation (Electricity &c.) Act, 1902 authorised the transfer of the Norwich Electricity Company's undertaking to the Corporation and in that year the Electricity Committee was formed to administer the business of the Norwich Electricity Co. The minutes of the Electricity Committee are listed at N/TC 25. By 1922 the original power station in Duke Street had reached full capacity and it was decided to build a new power station at Thorpe. This was opened on 28 October 1926 and had to be enlarged as soon as it was built and further enlargements were made in the 1930's. In 1934 the Central Electricity Board took responsibility for directing operation of the station and paying the running expenses. The Council then had the right to buy from the Board all the current needed for the distribution system. The result of an Act to provide for the establishment of a British Electrical Authority and Area Electricity Boards ..., 1947 was, from 1 April 1948, to vest the generating station in the British Electricity Authority and the remainder of the undertaking in the Eastern Electricity Board. The Electricity Committee met for the last time on 2 November 1948.

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