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Evening Standard
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Tom Davidson

Retiree who worked at Battersea Power Station finally gets trip up famous chimneys

A retiree who worked at the Battersea Power Station in the 1950s was given a trip up one of the famous chimneys, roughly 60 years after she was ticked off at work for trying to do so.

Rita Kelly, from Wimbledon, worked as a junior shorthand typist and relief telephonist for six years.

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