Paris has just about everything you could dream of as far as urban exploration is concerned, with rooftops and metro topping my list of things to do in this fantastic city, but Paris is no mecca for abandoned power stations. This was no deterrent, there had to be something out there...

Arriving at the site things were looking promising... Fast-forward half an hour and my face is pressed up to the glass of the turbine hall windows. A large smile is creeping across my face as I make out the silhouette of a massive turbine.

What Paris lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Walking into the turbine hall your confronted with the first of three 1930's vintage gas turbines, sitting the way they were 30 years ago when the station was closed. The turbine hall is over 100m long, whoever designed this place had some class.

Keep quiet, this is the resting place of giants.

Most of the station is striped bare - the boiler hall is nothing but 6 stories of open space with gaping holes in the floor. But someone had the vision to see the beauty of the turbine hall and saved it from fate of the rest of the plant.

With a fantastic view over Paris, the rooftop (complete with garden) is a great place to chill out. I had the opportunity to explore this station quite a few times over a two month period after the first visit, it felt a bit like home. But an unwelcome visit by a group of copper strippers late one night was the beginning of the end for this fantastic location.

Within a month the place was trashed, somehow the word had got out and the had graffers moved in. Windows were smashed and the turbines, which has stood untouched for almost 30 years were covered in graff.

R.I.P.

Marshall.

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