2-703-799 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sublimated Sewage Station: The Engine House at Abbey Mills', c1935. Abbey Mills Pumping Station, in Stratford, East London, nicknamed the 'Cathedral of Sewage' for its ornate design, was built in the 1860s as part of Joseph Bazalgette's public water mains network for London. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]