With a push of a button on July 15 1953, Sir John Hacking switched on the “supergrid” at Staythorpe substation in Nottinghamshire. Designed to carry electricity from coal-fired plants like Ferrybridge, Drax and Eggborough in Yorkshire, to London, and the southern counties, Manchester, Merseyside and Tyneside, it was a hugely ambitious achievement.
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