A water colour painting by Claude Buckle Calder Hall

This painting is believed to be the world’s first commercially operated nuclear power station painted before the station was built. “The opening of Calder Hall power station by Her Majesty the Queen on October 17th will mark an epoch in the history of power development. For Calder Hall is the first power station in the world to generate electricity on an industrial scale from nuclear energy. (Wikipedia 2014)” Claude Buckle draws the power station from plans to make an architectural pleasing water colour of the atomic facility 1956