Pumping station, Stewart Street
Introduction
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Pumping station, Stewart Street
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 26 Sep 2015
Unmistakably the work of John Outram, 1987-88, who described it as a "temple to summer storms". "The walls represent a blue brick river flowing between tree trunks, and the round hole of the fan which splits the gable is the cave between mountain peaks through which the river issues, falling as blue bricks down the wall ... practically, the brick chamber conceals a subterranean concrete pumping chamber, tank and control room. The columns carry ducts, and the axial fan in the metal-panelled gables prevents build-up of methane." Grade II* listed.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.499225
Longitude
-0.008245