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The panel in the front is the bench board where the control switches are (the operator initiated the control actions from here). The panel in the background is the vertical board which had the meters & other indicators on it where the operator could monitor the results of the actions (most of the indicators have been removed the shadow lines where they were can be seen) . Both are 1920's vintage and are probably made from slate.

This is a heating radiator. There must have been a reactor nearby. In a power station, the reactors (electrical) were typically to limit fault current.

This is a thermometer that was proabbly connected to a set of thermocouples. The switch would let the operator read either the throttle temperature (where the steam enters the turbine) ot the 5th stage temperature (at the 5th set of blades in the turbine) where they may have extracted steam for feedwater heating.