Old Abbey Mills Pumping Station (Station A)

The original cast iron sewage pipes of the old Abbey Mills Pumping Station (Station A). Located in Abbey Lane, London E15, the building is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver, it was built between 1865 and 1868 after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage. The pumps raise the sewage in the London sewerage system between the two Low Level Sewers and the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage produced in London away from the centre of the city.

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Copyright: Quintin Lake
Image Size: 4064x2704 / 16.6MB; Architecture Charles Driver Engineering Infrastructure Internal London Northen outfall Sewage Sewer Thames Water Victorian Waste
Contained in galleries: Thames Water Northern Outfall: Abbey Mills Pumping Station & Beckton Sewage Treatment Works

The original cast iron sewage pipes of the old Abbey Mills Pumping Station (Station A). Located in Abbey Lane, London E15, the building is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver, it was built between 1865 and 1868 after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and "The Big Stink" of 1858. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage. The pumps raise the sewage in the London sewerage system between the two Low Level Sewers and the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage produced in London away from the centre of the city.