Thanks to finger-on-the-pulse Mr Tyler, we managed to catch the third of four opening days of the derelict and soon to be redeveloped Battersea Power Station. There are all kinds of plans to turn this listed building into apartments and hotels and other swankpads, including a (highly unlikely) Northern Line extension. But I was there for some abandoned industrial action.

The station has pretty much been left as it was since it was abandoned, though most of the machines have been removed and the roof has been pulled off. That was in 1983 when some property developer bloke thought he'd make London's equivalent of Alton Towers, but only got as far as ripping the roof off before running out of money. Stoopid.