Children of Men, 2006 The station featured as the Ark of the Arts, which held priceless artefacts. Director Alfonso Cuarón added a flying pig between the towers in reference to Pink Floyd’s Animals album cover
Children of Men, 2006 The station featured as the Ark of the Arts, which held priceless artefacts. Director Alfonso Cuarón added a flying pig between the towers in reference to Pink Floyd’s Animals album cover © Snap Stills/Rex/Shutterstock

As London’s landmark former power station is redeveloped, the memory of its famous towers and desolate post-industrial image will live on in the movies, from the Beatles’ Help! to The Dark Knight

Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984 … and the location of a dystopian world in Michael Radford’s adaptation of the 1949 novel
Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984 … and the location of a dystopian world in Michael Radford’s adaptation of the 1949 novel © Alamy