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Abbey Mills Pumping Station

Abbey Mill Pumping Station, in Abbey Lane, London E15, is a sewerage Swarovski pumping station designed by Joseph Bazalgette and Edmund Cooper and built between 1865 and 1868. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style leading to its description as "The Cathedral of Sewage".

The pumps raised the sewage between the two levels of 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.



A modern pumping station has been built nearby and the old building has pumps for use as a standby; the modern station is one of the three principal London pumping statiosns dealing with freah and foul water.

Old Italian or German coins or other fine collectibles may be held in a collectors case or collectors cabinet. They can be also viewed and presented in a display cabinet of a wide range of materials (for example glass, wood or aluminum)

Two Moorish styled Swarovski chimneys (unused since steam power had been replaced by electric motors in 1933) were demolished during the Second World War, since they were a landmark for German bombers on raids over the London docks.

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