BATTERSEA

Date "BATTERSEA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

Specialty Definition: BATTERSEA

Domain	Definition
Literature	Battersea You must go to Battersea to get your simples cut. A reproof to a simpleton, or one who makes a very foolish observation. The market gardeners of Battersea used to grow simples (medicinal herbs), and the London apothecaries went there to select or cut such as they wanted. (See Naviga. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Battersea

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Battersea is part of the London Borough of Wandsworth. Up until 1965 it was a borough in its own right. It is famous for Battersea Power Station an impressive, but disused edifice designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (featured, with flying pig, on the sleeve art of Pink Floyd's album 'Animals'), Battersea Park, Battersea Dog's Home and London's busiest heliport. An overspill from fashionable Chelsea has dramatically changed the character of Battersea in the last 25 years. Up until the mid 1970s much of Battersea was industrial and working class residential. The factories have all been demolished and mainly replaced with luxury apartment buildings. Many of the council owned properties have been sold off. The traditional working men's pubs have become fashionable bistros.
Nearest places:
Clapham
Wandsworth
Vauxhall
Knightsbridge
Stockwell

Nearest railway stations:
Battersea Park railway station
Clapham Junction railway station
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Battersea Power Station

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Battersea Power Station was the first in a series of very large (for the era) electrical generators set up in England in order to nationalize the grid.
During the 1920s electricity supply was being set up by small companies who built stations dedicated to a single industry or group of factories, and sold off any excess power to the public. However, each company used their own equipment which led to all sorts of small plots where standards differed. One could not generally purchase an electrical applicance and know that it would work where one lived.
Parliament finally decided that the power grid should be a single system under public ownership. This sparked a storm of protest from those who thought that the government should not be involved, and in the end it would be another 30 years before nationalization was completed.
In the meantime the private companies saw the writing on the wall and decided to clean up their act, and several formed the London Power Company in 1925. Their plan was to build a smaller number of very large stations and sell the power to anyone who wanted it. Their first plant was planned for the Battersea area on the south bank of the River Thames in London.
This sparked off more protests from those who felt the building was too large and would be an eyesore, and those who were worried about the pollution. Ignoring the later, the company addressed the former by hiring Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, a noted architect and industrial designer (also famous for the design of the red telephone box, and of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral).
The resulting design is a steel-framed building with brickwork hung from the outside, similar to the skyscrapers being built in the US at the time. Construction started in 1929 and was completed by 1939. The original plant had a single long hall with a chimney at either end. From 1953-55 a second identical (from the outside) Station B was constructed right next to the original, which became known as Station A. This gave the station its familar four-chimney layout. Far from being an eyesore, the station has since become one of London's most famous landmarks and is generally loved.
In 1975 Station A (now quite out of date) was shut down, with rumors that Station B would soon follow. Intense public pressure mounted to save the buildings, notably Station A's Art Deco interior. In 1980 the station was declared a heritage site, and in 1983 production in Station B ended as well. At that point it was unclear what to do with the building, so a contest was held to look for the best ideas. The winning bid was to construct a theme park inside the grounds (which are huge) and work started on the plan in 1988. The start consisted of cutting huge holes in the roof, through which the machinery was hoisted out to be sold. At that point the project folded: the buildings have remained in this state to this day.
Battersea Power Station features in the much parodied artwork of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals. (The large pink inflatable pig seen floating above the power station "broke loose" from its moorings and reportedly ended up in a garden in south London. These problems led to there being no usable single photo of the pig in situ, and the sleeve was a composite image.)
In recent years, the building has occasionally played host to music concerts, and performances by the Cirque du Soleil (in a nearby marquee). In Ian McKellen's film of Shakespeare's Richard III, the derelict power station surreally stands in for Bosworth Field in Richard's final battle scene.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Battersea Power Station."

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Metropolitan Borough of Battersea

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The Metropolitan Borough of Battersea was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1888 and 1965, when it was combined with parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to form the London Borough of Wandsworth.
It included Battersea, Battersea Park, and parts of Wandsworth Common and Clapham Common.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Metropolitan Borough of Battersea."

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Modern Usage: BATTERSEA

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Old Battersea House (1961)

Blackhearts In Battersea (1996)

The Fame Factor: The Battersea Bardot (1994)

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Commercial Usage: BATTERSEA

Domain	Title
References	Bilston & Battersea Enamels Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Lost, stolen or strayed: the story of the Battersea Dogs' Home (reference) (more book examples)

Music	The Polygon Years, Vol. 2 (Meet Me In Battersea Park) (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: BATTERSEA

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Digital Photo Gallery: BATTERSEA


"Battersea power station" by Jurgen Geitner Commentary: "Silhouette of Battersea power station, London ."	"Battersea london powerstation" by Denis R. Commentary: "Battersea london powerstation (remember Pink Floyd Animals?) from the train tnx Simonok!."
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Usage Frequency: BATTERSEA

"BATTERSEA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.60% of the time. "BATTERSEA" is used about 247 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	99.6%	246	19,009
Noun (common)	0.4%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	247	N/A

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Usage in Company Names: BATTERSEA

Country	Name
United Kingdom	Bilston & Battersea Enamels Plc
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: BATTERSEA

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "BATTERSEA": battersea-fields, battersea-living.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BATTERSEA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
battersea dog home	34
battersea	18
battersea power station	8
battersea kingdom united	7
battersea park	6
arts battersea center	5
bilston battersea	3
battersea croyden ilford in storage	3
battersea dog	2
battersea conveyancing in quote	2
battersea ontario	2
bilston and battersea enamel	2
battersea enamel plc	2
battersea shield	2
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Anagrams: BATTERSEA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-r-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: abetters, berettas, stearate, tabarets, trabeate.
	-2 letters: abaters, abetter, abreast, aerates, batters, beaters, berates, beretta, betters, estreat, rebates, restate, retaste, tabaret.
	-3 letters: abaser, abater, abates, aerate, aretes, attars, barest, baster, batter, beater, berate, berets, bettas, better, breast, easter, eaters, estate, rabats, reatas, rebate, reseat, retest, seater, setter, stater, strata, street, tabers, taster, tatars, taters.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: heartbeats.
	+2 letters: breastplate, restartable.
	+3 letters: breastplates, entablatures.
	+4 letters: backscattered, rehabilitates, tractableness.
	+5 letters: abstractedness, abstractnesses, alterabilities, bacteriostases, overabstracted, scatterbrained, traceabilities, treatabilities.
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