Strange structure near Upton station
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Strange structure near Upton station
Image: © Fractal Angel Taken: 16 Aug 2007
This ruined tower lurking behind an electricity substation looks as if it might once have been a support for a bridge, perhaps before the nearby M53 motorway was built. Update June 2020: Geograph Moderator, Alan Murray-Rust writes "Not a bridge support. This is the remaining base of the chimney of what was originally a steam-powered Ford Pumping Station, part of Birkenhead Corporation Water Works. Old maps suggest that steam operation had been replaced by the 1930s, almost certainly by electric pumps housed in the building that remains. The decorative base of the chimney would have been much more trouble to demolish than the rest of the chimney, so was left in place. The electricity substation is on the site of the pump house."
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Image Location
Latitude
53.386158
Longitude
-3.084595