A large group of men posed in front of and on top of the brick wall forming part of the overflow reservoir at Crossness Pumping Station, Bexley

Date:: 1860s

Location:: Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Crossness Pumping Station, Bazalgette Way, Erith Marshes, Bexley, Greater London Authority

Reference:: OP04618

Type:: Photograph (Print)

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Description

Crossness Pumping Station was constructed in the 1860s to pump and release the sewage from the three intercepting sewers south of the Thames: the High and Low Level Sewers, and the Effra Branch. The sewage was pumped into a reservoir at Crossness, and released into the Thames at high tide. The complex was originally called the Southern Outfall Works, and was officially opened on 4th April 1865.

Content

This is part of the Collection: MBW01 Photographs Of Metropolitan Board Of Works Projects Including Crossness

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Victorian Sewage Pumping Station, Victorian Reservoir