A new exhibition at a south-east London gallery records the final days of Fawley Power Station in Hampshire, which the Twentieth Century Society tried to get listed in recognition of its architectural merit.

The building, built between 1965 and 1971 to designs by Farmer and Dark, was an oil-fired power station boasting a 198m chimney that towered over the New Forest and the waters of the Solent.

The C20 society argued the brutalist building could have a future similar to Giles Gilbert Scott’s Bankside Power Station, converted into the Tate Modern gallery by Herzog & de Meuron in the late 1990s.

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