Cockenzie Power Station Mural

Together with Scotland UnLtd, The Prestoungrange Arts Festival has funded a mural on the power station walls by Andrew Crummy, which offers a visual celebration of the history of the site.

The mural images include elements of the social and working life of the people of Cockenzie and Prestonpans, from fisher folk to salt workers to colliers, as well as a visual record of the early stages of the construction of the Power Station itself.

The mural includes: Power station, Box meeting parade, Fisherman Association banner, 1959 Gala Queen, John Bellany, Pipers, Preston Monks and Salt, portraits of Marlene Love, Stan Love and others connected or working in the Powerstation, Prestonlinks Colliery, Fishermen carrying a traditional fishing boat. The first wooden railway line in UK (The Wagonway), Engineer who built The Power station, Girl who was born on the day the first brick was laid to build the power station, fisherwomen, fishermen, two church towers in Cockenzie, elements of the powers station including turbine, reference to the reclaimed land and wildlife in Musselburgh lagoons, etc.

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