Inside view Crossness reservoir 1865
From an original Illustrated London News engraving pub 1865 Probably fair to say that this saved London from drowning in its own waste & did much to wipe out diseases such as cholera in the newly swollen population of the capital owing to the industrial revolution. Wiki: The Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the Metropolitan Board of Works's Chief Engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver at the eastern end of the Southern Outfall Sewer in the London Borough of Bexley. Constructed between 1859 and 1865, as part of Bazalgette's redevelopment of the London sewerage system, it features spectacular ornamental cast ironwork, that Nikolaus Pevsner described as "a masterpiece of engineering – a Victorian cathedral of ironwork".
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Location: London, England
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