Bifurcated and Tubular Rivets - Weir pumps
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Bifurcated and Tubular Rivets - Weir pumps
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 30 Jul 1988
This works has long since been demolished and immortalised in Rivets Close. These are a typical pair of Weir boiler feed pumps - duplicated for redundancy. These used to be very common but are now getting increasingly less common.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.805078
Longitude
-0.80632