Bermondsey: Duffield Sluice offices
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Bermondsey: Duffield Sluice offices
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 2 Nov 2019
The date stone between the first-floor windows reads Sewers Surrey & Kent Duffield Sluice 1822. Built by the Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers, according to some sources this was an office block for a pumping station since demolished. Apparently most of the sewers in the area were below the level of the Thames at high tide, so sluice gates managed the flow into the river.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.500248
Longitude
-0.063959