Abbey Mills Pumping Stations

Abbey Mills Pumping Stations

The original Abbey Mills Pumping Station, in Abbey Lane, London E15, is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver, it was built between 1865 and 1868. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as "The Cathedral of Sewage". It has a twin, Crossness Pumping Station, south of the River Thames at Crossness, at the end of the Southern Outfall Sewer.

Purpose

The pumps raised 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.

Two Moorish styled chimneys – unused since steam power had been replaced by electric motors in 1933 – were demolished during the Second World War, as they were a landmark for German bombers on raids over the London docks.

The building still houses electric pumps – to be used in reserve for the new facility next door.

The main building is grade II* listed and there are many grade II listed ancillary buildings, including the stumps of the demolished chimneys.

The modern pumping station

The modern pumping station (Station F) was designed by architects Allies and Morrison. The old building (Station A) has electrical pumps for use as a standby; the modern station is one of the three principal London pumping stations dealing with foul water.

One of world's largest installation of drum screens to treat sewage was constructed as part of the Thames Tideway Scheme. The site is managed and operated by Thames Water.

Etymology

Abbey Mills derives its name from the site of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, which lay between the Channelsea River and Marsh Lane (Manor Road). The Abbey was dissolved in 1538. By 1840, the North Woolwich railway ran through the site, and it began to be used to establish factories, and ultimately the sewage pumping stations [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42760 West Ham: Stratford Abbey, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp. 112-14] Date accessed: 20 February 2007] .

As a film location

The pumping station (Station A) was used as the location for the "Cosy Prisons" video shoot by Norwegian pop band a-ha on 4 March 2006, [cite web
title ='Cosy Prisons' video shoot...in London!
work =News
publisher =Official a-ha website
date =2006-03-05
url =http://www.a-ha.com/cparticle6968-417.html
accessdate =2007-02-22 ] and also represented Arkham Asylum in the 2005 film "Batman Begins".cite book | author = Claudia Kalindjian | title = Batman Begins: The Official Movie Guide | publisher = Time Warner International | date = 2005 | pages = 144-45 | isbn = 1-932273-44-1]

References

External links

* [http://www.barhale.co.uk/projects/project_view.php4?DataSchemeID=4&ContentID=9 Barhale news page]
* [http://www.annandave.org/Abby%20Mills.htm Interior and exterior photos of the pumping station]
* [http://www.thameswater.co.uk/UK/region/en_gb/content/section_homepages/multi_download_000896.jsp Thameswater - About Abbey Mills pumping station]
*IoE|204900|- Grade II* main building
*IoE|204903|- Grade II base of demolished chimneys
*IoE|204901|- Grade II ancillary pump house
*IoE|204902|- Grade II stores
*IoE|204904|- Grade II superintendent's house (offices)
*IoE|204905|- Grade II gate lodge
*IoE|204906|- Grade II gate and gate piers
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