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The site of the covered 25 million gallon sewage reservoir which covered 6 acres... (more)

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Directly ahead is the Fitting Shop of the Crossness 1865 Sewage Pumping Station.... (more)

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The TEEH (Triple Expansion Engine House) was added to the Crossness site towards... (more)

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The Boiler House on the right and the massive Beam Engine House behind are the... (more)

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On arriving at the Crossness site (whether having used the little train or not)... (more)

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Taken from the path & cycleway that skirts the site of the historic... (more)

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A combination of the letters MWB (for Metropolitan Board of Works) in a... (more)

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Situated within TQ4881 : Crossness - Valve House is the former Power Supply for the Crossness... (more)

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The Valve House has had a number of purposes, first to house control machinery... (more)

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This is the western doorway and entrance to the 1865 Beam Engine House. There is... (more)

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The top of the yet-to-be-refurbished pressure cylinders for beam engine... (more)

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Like his wife's namesake pump TQ4881 : Crossness - Alexandra - Pressure cylinders "Albert Edward"... (more)

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These are the unrefurbished pressure cylinders for beam engine... (more)

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The recently renovated pressure cylinders for beam engine "Victoria" -... (more)

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The steam from the boilers is delivered to the High Pressure Cylinder (HPC)... (more)

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Each of the huge beam engines at TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station has a suitably enormous flywheel... (more)

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A view of the beam of "Victoria" one of the four mighty beam engines... (more)

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A view down the shaft which is being powered by the pressure cylinder the top of... (more)

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Taken as this end of the beam was at or near its maximum elevation, this view... (more)

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Looking at the side of TQ4881 : Crossness - Prince Consort - Beam as it pivots with the nearest end rising.... (more)

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A view along the length of the beam of "Prince Consort" beam engine in... (more)

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This is a view along the upper floor of the Engine House of TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station on the... (more)

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This brass plaque is on the landing joining the Beam Engine House with the... (more)

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The Triple Expansion Engine House (TEEH) was added on to the northern façade of... (more)

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Looking at the door on the eastern end of the Engine House at TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station.... (more)

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The ironwork in the Engine House at TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station is of a tremendously high... (more)

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Between the lower and upper levels of the Octagon at the centre of the Engine... (more)

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These superbly ornate panels are all around the Octagon in the Engine House at... (more)

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Taken from the level of TQ4881 : Crossness - Pumping Station - Section of Octagon looking up at the gallery around the... (more)

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The inside of the Engine House at TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station is full of high quality ironwork... (more)

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Looking into the eastern section of the Engine House at TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station from the... (more)

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This spiral staircase is at the centre of the Octagon which is itself at the... (more)

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Three of the eight sides of the central Octagon at TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station looking through... (more)

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In the middle of the Engine House at TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station is an octagonal central... (more)

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Halfway Reach is the section of the River Thames as it flows past TQ4881 : Crossness - Historic original Pumping Station.... (more)

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Taken from the River Thames path to the south of the river just outside the... (more)

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Sir Joseph William Bazalgette CB (28/03/1819 – 15/03/1891) was a Victorian civil... (more)

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The northeastern terminus of the little RANG (Royal Arsenal Narrow Gauge)... (more)

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Looking up the diminutive RANG railway at Crossness. See TQ4880 : Crossness - RANG Railway - Eddie's Rest for more details.

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The Royal Arsenal Narrow Gauge Railway (RANG) is a 400m (or so) little railway... (more)

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A house on the junction of the trunk A38 road and the A371 at Cross, in... (more)

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The little railway locomotive "Bazalgette" at TQ4880 : Crossness - RANG Railway - Eddie's Rest just... (more)

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Belvedere Road leads into the modern sewerage pumping station which lies about... (more)

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A gate on a bridle path leading onto Cross Plain, on the hills overlooking the... (more)

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A view looking west to Cross from the NCN26 path just off Racurium Cottage near... (more)

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This centre-loaded cross-arm governor will adjust the high pressure cylinder... (more)

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This is one of two engines either side of the main visitor entrance to the... (more)

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One of two engines displayed either side of the main visitor entrance to the... (more)

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The large parts of the 1888 Easton & Anderson Woolf compound beam pumping... (more)

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One of Bazalgette's enormous pumping stations that was commissioned in 1865... (more)

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