Exterior view of a large group of men posed in front of tall wooden constuction poles during the foundation ceremony at Crossness Pumping Station, Bexley, with the masts of Thames barges in the background

Date:
1860 - 1865
Location:
Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Crossness Pumping Station, Bazalgette Way, Erith Marshes, Bexley, Greater London Authority
Reference:
OP04630
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