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Inside Abbey Mills Pumping Station - London Sewers Tour

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Oct 17, 2017 · London has a natural North-South slope so mostly the city’s sewage flows downhill. Historically there were a few places where it needs an extra ‘lift’ and one of these spots is Abbey Mills. There are other pumping stations in Chelsea and Thamesmead, …

Visit London's Most Glorious Sewage Pumping Station ...

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Jul 13, 2016 · M@ Visit London's Most Glorious Sewage Pumping Station "Sir Joe would be really chuffed." So declared Peter Bazalgette, name-checking his great, great grandfather Joseph who rebuilt London's sewer ...

Sewer tours: subterranean charms of London and Brighton ...

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Jun 12, 2015 · The London tour may begin at the majestic Victorian pile that is Abbey Mills pumping station in Stratford. You’ll be required to descend ladders and wade, waist-deep through sewage; it’s a …

Joseph Bazalgette - Wikipedia

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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB (/ ˈ b æ z əl dʒ ɛ t /; 28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer.As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation (in response to the Great Stink of 1858) of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while ...

The story of London’s sewer system Heritage Calling

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Mar 28, 2019 · Tideway is in the process of building a ‘super sewer’ – the Thames Tideway Tunnel – to relieve the pressure on the old system. It will run under London for 25 kilometres, from Acton in the west to Beckton in the east, at depths of between 30 and 60 metres, using gravity to transfer the waste eastwards for treatment.

BBC - In pictures: The sewers of London

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Friends of civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette (1819 - 1891) are given a tour of the main drainage works of his new London sewage system, 1862. Sir Joseph Bazalgette is seen standing top right viewing the Northern Outfall sewer. It was built below the Abbey Mills pumping station.

Tideway Reconnecting London with the River Thames

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Reconnecting London with the River Thames. London relies on a 150-year-old sewer system built for a population less than half its current size. As a result, millions of tonnes of raw sewage spills, untreated, into the River Thames each year.

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