Today we visited the beam engine house of the Crossness Pumping Station, part of the sewerage system built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette to rid London of The Great Stink.
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| The Octagon |
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| Prince Consort |
We were inawed by the size and weight of the rotative beam engines and by the ingenuity of the Victorians.
We were amused by the wry humour of the capitals; nothing like syrup of figs to clear a system of blockages :)
Out of muck grows abundance ;) We admired the fecund details of the wrought and cast ironwork.
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