Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store

I used to cycle past it every day to go to school across the river. For all the suggestions about how bad it is the current flats on the site are, remarkably, much more ugly. Somewhere I have photographs of the site where I walked around it and the nearby disused industrial surroundings of Battersea power station, just after this was demolished.

I never knew I would want to know so much about a concrete box that held some butter and cheese.

Lived in London since '96, knew nothing about this. I am ashamed of my ignorance but now delighted by this weird entity and its fascinating history.

What an eyesore, I would hate to have lived in a town where that monstrosity was the one thing dominating the skyline.

> Quite how it took two decades to knock the Cold Store down isn’t clear but one factor seems to have been the cost of demolition.

With their 3m thick walls, several Nazi towers have yet to be demolished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower