details

2024
194 × 210mm, 58 pages
Self-designed and published
£18
@archindustrial

artist

Nick Haseltine is an architect, photographer and small-time publisher with passion for industrial buildings and landscapes. Raised in the port town of Whitstable in the 1970s, he developed a fascination in industrial history and architecture.

Since qualifying as an architect Nick has been involved in numerous regeneration projects, researching historical buildings and bringing them back into use. ‘My passion for industrial architecture has continued to grow parallel with my job, inspiring me to research and record the industrial buildings of the world, from the mills of northern England to the incredible grain behemoths of the Great Plains and Lakes in the US.’

Nick has published eight books and has another four planned for the first half of 2025.

publication

Energy Basin tracks the transformation of coal into coke and its journey onward to the massive electricity power stations of the Trent Valley through Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Known historically as ‘Megawatt Valley’, in the mid-1980s the area’s 13 coal-fired power stations generated up to a quarter of the UK’s power demand.

Explains Nick: ‘We are fast approaching a society where our industrial architecture and associated social history is disappearing. This book provides a narrative about why the industrial architecture of the Trent Valley was founded and shows a celebration of the structures and landscape it facilitated in creating.’