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Description: LESC sub-station, Greenwich High Road This is, or was, an electricity sub-station and LESC stands for the London Electric Supply Corporation. It has been dated to c.1920 and is a "rare survival of a company involved in the very earliest days of the commercial supply of electric lighting" - from a more detailed history on a local history website : http://www.ashburnhamtriangleassociation.co.uk/History.html (died of link rot see:) Greenwich Industrial History A much more recent telephone box stands incongruously alongside.
Title: LESC sub-station, Greenwich High Road - geograph.org.uk - 1464261
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Author: Stephen Craven
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