Highfield Street Power Station
A power station of the Liverpool Electric Supply Co, located in Highfield Street, close to the Exchange Station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Supplied 110v direct current.
1891 Each set of machinery consists of a dynamo driven by a Willans compound engine fixed on the same bedplate. Steam is supplied to the engines by double-flued or Lancashire boilers. During the hours of least demand the engines are stopped, and the current is supplied from accumulators. The cells used are made by the Electric Construction Co., and the Crompton-Howell Electrical Storage Co. The distributing mains are laid underground in iron troughs filled in with bitumen, on the Callender plan.
By 1919 all of the smaller and older stations in Liverpool had been closed and investment was concentrated on the Lister Drive Power Station.