The original Abbey Mills Pumping Station , in Abbey Lane, London E15, is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver. It was built between 1865 and 1868.
It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage. It has a twin, Crossness Pumping Station, south of the River Thames at Crossness, at the end of the Southern Outfall Sewer. The pumps raised the sewage in the London sewerage system between the two Low Level Sewers and the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage produced in London away from the centre of the city.
Two Moorish styled chimneys – unused since steam power had been replaced by electric motors in 1933 – were demolished during the Second World War, as they were a landmark for German bombers on raids over the London docks. The building still houses electric pumps – to be used in reserve
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07-02-2011, 09:45 PM #1
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Re: Abbey Mills Pumping Station
That place is just gorgeous!
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07-02-2011, 10:02 PM #3
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Re: Abbey Mills Pumping Station
Thats the poshist shit pump i've ever seen
Nice to see more pics of the place. Great pics mate
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07-02-2011, 10:10 PM #5
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Re: Abbey Mills Pumping Station
To use street terms i would say "Dat building be sick yo!"
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07-02-2011, 10:22 PM #6
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Re: Abbey Mills Pumping Station
WIN WIN WIN!
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07-02-2011, 10:24 PM #7
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Really nice SS, almost too nice LOL
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07-02-2011, 10:26 PM #8minxy* Guest Re: Abbey Mills Pumping Station
This place looks ace top stuff ss
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07-02-2011, 10:28 PM #9
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07-02-2011, 11:23 PM #10
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Re: Abbey Mills Pumping Station
top stuff one place id love to see
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