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Dounreay

The bottom half of the world's first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956. It is being constructed by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Original Publication : Picture Post - 8552 - Atomic Power Puts A Coalmine In A Ball Of Steel - pub. 1956 (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Battersea Power Station Silhouette

25th January 1954: Battersea power station in London.
With dimensions of 160m x 170m, the roof of the boiler house 50m tall, and its four 103m tall, tapering chimneys, the station is a massive structure. The building comprises of two stations - Battersea A and Battersea B, which were conjoined when the identical B section was completed in the 1950s, and it was the world's most thermally efficient building when it opened.
(Photo by Monty Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Stobhill Hospital, Springburn, Glasgow

An aerial view of Stobhill Hospital, erected in 1903-4 at Springburn, Glasgow, by the city's poor law authority. It provided around 2000 beds for the infirm and chronic sick poor, and for children. During the First World War, it was used as a military hospital, then later became Glasgow Corporation Hospital. Date: Date unknown

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