2-714-810 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Chelsea Water-Works, in 1750', (c1876). Chelsea Waterworks founded in 1723, created extensive ponds in the borders of Chelsea and Pimlico using water from the tidal Thames, by the 19th century there were complaints about the quality of the water. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]