Generation. Generate

Norma Clarke describes her family's recent history in the shadow of what was Bankside power station on the south side of the Thames, where her father worked as a turbine operator for the Central Electricity Generating Board. The building is now Tate Modern. Her essay suggests the many kinds of generation of electricity, of lost forms of work, of violent changes of life, of family transformations and educational shifts. As she concludes, 'Bankside, "the brick Cathedral" my father tended with love and passion, became, by a really colossal effort of imagination and will, an art gallery.'