Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 46 minutes ago
Southwark Generating Station is an abandoned power plant on the shores of Philadelphia's Delaware River. Designed by renowned French architect Paul Philippe Cret, the power plant symbolized the soaring Beaux-Arts architecture of its time.
Constructed during World War II, the power plant – one of eight Philadelphia Electric Company stations in the area – reached a generating capacity of 364MW by the 1960s. It drew 450 million gallons of water daily from the Delaware River for cooling and used 50 million gallons of city water every year for steam and other purposes. But by the 1980s, operations ceased, and now, Southwark is the victim of scrappers and other vandals.
Join me, along with fellow explorers Abandoned Adventures and Mister Yakob, as we go exploring past the present future.
J O I N T H E C O M M U N I T Y
⇢ Instagram – instagram.com/chrisluckhardt
⇢ TikTok – tiktok.com/@chrisluckhardt
⇢ X – twitter.com/chrisluckhardt
M U S I C
⇢ Intro Music – "Dark Side of the Southwark"
⇢ Outro Music – "Dark Side of the Southwark (Reprise)"
⇢ Theme Music – "Past the Present Future"
⇢ All music written, performed, recorded, and engineered by Chris Luckhardt.
B I O G R A P H Y
Chris Luckhardt has documented and photographed some of the most iconic and viral images of abandoned places around the world. He was among the first photographers to publish photos in the press from legendary abandoned places like Hashima Island, Nara Dreamland, Michigan Central Station, and Six Flags New Orleans. His body of work has led to collaborations with The White House, Netflix, Ford, GQ China, ABC News, Good Morning America, Scholastic Canada, Yahoo! Japan, and many more. In 2016, the Obama administration invited Chris to photograph a private citizen "haunted" tour of The White House.
#PastThePresentFuture #PowerPlant #ChrisLuckhardt #Abandoned #Adventure #AbandonedPlaces
Southwark Generating Station is an abandoned power plant on the shores of Philadelphia's Delaware River. Designed by renowned French architect Paul Philippe Cret, the power plant symbolized the soaring Beaux-Arts architecture of its time.
Constructed during World War II, the power plant – one of eight Philadelphia Electric Company stations in the area – reached a generating capacity of 364MW by the 1960s. It drew 450 million gallons of water daily from the Delaware River for cooling and used 50 million gallons of city water every year for steam and other purposes. But by the 1980s, operations ceased, and now, Southwark is the victim of scrappers and other vandals.
Join me, along with fellow explorers Abandoned Adventures and Mister Yakob, as we go exploring past the present future.
J O I N T H E C O M M U N I T Y
⇢ Instagram – instagram.com/chrisluckhardt
⇢ TikTok – tiktok.com/@chrisluckhardt
⇢ X – twitter.com/chrisluckhardt
M U S I C
⇢ Intro Music – "Dark Side of the Southwark"
⇢ Outro Music – "Dark Side of the Southwark (Reprise)"
⇢ Theme Music – "Past the Present Future"
⇢ All music written, performed, recorded, and engineered by Chris Luckhardt.
B I O G R A P H Y
Chris Luckhardt has documented and photographed some of the most iconic and viral images of abandoned places around the world. He was among the first photographers to publish photos in the press from legendary abandoned places like Hashima Island, Nara Dreamland, Michigan Central Station, and Six Flags New Orleans. His body of work has led to collaborations with The White House, Netflix, Ford, GQ China, ABC News, Good Morning America, Scholastic Canada, Yahoo! Japan, and many more. In 2016, the Obama administration invited Chris to photograph a private citizen "haunted" tour of The White House.
#PastThePresentFuture #PowerPlant #ChrisLuckhardt #Abandoned #Adventure #AbandonedPlaces
