Upper Cherry Garden Waterworks
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Upper Cherry Garden Waterworks by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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Upper Cherry Garden Waterworks
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 2 Jun 1982
It was an important site, being the first site in the UK to house Worthington non-rotative twin tandem triple expansion steam pumping engines. It also housed a workshop with steam engine and water turbine drive and the company museum with a good number of steam engines. All has been saved but it is spread around London and the south-east. The Worthingtons were in the glazed section.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.09888
Longitude
1.154805