Woolwich Power station was coal-fired and first opened in 1893 as the Woolwich District Electric Lighting Company, but subsequently redeveloped into a large site with three giant chimneys. One was taken down in 1978 and the other two blown up the following year, but parts of the building were still being demolished in 1981.
 
It used up to a thousand tonnes of coal per day shipped down from Yorkshire and Northumberland with a conveyor belt bringing it from the jetty, part of which still remains. The site was for some time the car park for the Waterfront Leisure Centre, but I think is now a building site next to Bell Water Gate, becoming part of Royal Arsenal Riverside with six large residential tower blocks.
 
At the bottom right you can just see the North Woolwich ferry terminal, and, above a brick wall, the top of a ferry loaded with vehicles. There is also a now demolished industrial building, and in the background the cranes of the Royal Docks; the last vessel to be loaded there left on 7th December 1981, around 4 months after I made this picture.