All images taken using a Nikon Z 8 with either a 14-30mm f/4S, or, 24-120mm f/4S zoom lens. Post processing in Adobe Lightroom and DxO Pure Raw3.
The Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the Metropolitan Board of Works's chief engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver. It is located at Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, at the eastern end of the Southern Outfall Sewer and the Ridgeway path in the London Borough of Bexley. Constructed between 1859 and 1865 by William Webster, as part of Bazalgette's redevelopment of the London sewerage system, it features spectacular ornamental cast ironwork, that Nikolaus Pevsner described as "a masterpiece of engineering – a Victorian cathedral of ironwork".
Ground Floor of the 1865 Pumping Station
Beam Engines and fly wheels awaiting restoration to their original colours.
Cast iron screen in its unrestored condition.
An original 1865 cast iron screens and pillars restored to their original colours.
Detailed Images of the pumping machinery.
Pumping Station Lower Ground Areas.
The 1865 Pumping Station Exterior.
Pumping Station Interiors.
Volunteer's Maintenance Workshop.
