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English: 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.
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Camera location51° 28′ 34.8″ N, 0° 01′ 04″ W  Heading=292° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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