FORGOTTEN VICTORIAN PUMPING STATION (CROSSNESS LONDON)
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- A very special explore today folks, we was invited to Crossness sewage pumping station by our friend Chris who is one of the members of the Engines Trust organisation that was formed in 1987 to restore Crossness .
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Hi all, Chris from the video...the part of the pump that I forgot on the film is called a compensator, it takes the force out of the gush from the pumps...thank you for all the great comments, and yes I do have slight asthma and the stairs are a killer..:-)
Thanks for doing what you do!
Thanks for the effort and work you do! It makes our ancestors look more godly and enlightened then their offspring.
Mywindow - strange comment, are you saying people today are dumb? I think you should perhaps speak for yourself. The suggestion that humanity has lost intelligence is a pretty stupid argument, the things we take for granted today would have been unimaginable to the Victorians.
great work, thank you for the tour
Mate, you are are a legend
So beautiful! It's like a church for human waste
lol yeah, the victorians were good at making industrial buildings actually look nice
Amazing looking place.
It does look like that, doesn't it? With a steamboat diesel oil rig powered poo pipe organ.
A Cathedral to iron,brick and water and great workmanship from man, stunning building, the days when they had great pride in there work as it now still shows, great video and you were very lucky to get to see lots of places inside we don't get to see. just brilliant.
Hahaha, more like a beautifull cathedral to shit, muck, disease and general period correct pollution... ;-)
Wrong, it's quite the opposite. It's a beautiful cathedral to dealing with "shit, much, disease" and pollution.
This place is so beautiful ! The Victorian Era created beautiful amazing places and technology, the beginning of the modern world.
Another excellent video chaps. Those Victorians certainly knew how to build great engineering structures. Well done to the members of the Engine Trust Organisation in the restoration work that will allow future generations to appreciate what was being done to improve sanitation in London in the 19th Century.
That man is so knowledgeable and passionate! GENIUS!
This has to be the best film you Lads have posted. 10 out of 10 for this Historical feast of British Engineering and modern conservation.
There's an engine of similar age and size up near Derby that is still kept operational for balancing a canal. Most of the everyday work is done by electric pumps but the steam engine can join in if there's a flood (or to amuse visitors, e.g. Fred Dibnah)I'd be more impressed if they got Crossness running again, even if it's not doing vital work.
This building is amazing, so glad to see it getting the love it deserves
+DOS Fox yeah it's very nice to see :)
That was really awesome of the guy to show you around. You could really tell he had a passion about the place. Like someone showing you their pride and joy. Made the video more interesting.
The recurved pipe section is most likely a simple, Victorian era solution of allowing expansion, contraction and vibration without cracking the pipe.
That's exactly what it is.
Function AND form working together - not done much anymore in public projects. What a gem Chris is! You can almost see and hear that old place churning and humming as he explains it all. Great vid - how could I NOT subscribe?!
Thanks for the tour Chris Waite.
Fantastic work the trust has done in restoring this place and the engines. Fascinating watch.
This is real engineering
A modern solution would be cheaper, more efficient, less noisy, less polution and would require less staff, dont undervalue modern engineers.
I work as a engineer so i don't. I just think that mondern engineering looks a bit dull. Pumping stations today simply said are just a few tanks, a few pipes and a set of pumps going vrrrrr. Steam pumps sounds like they are alive.
Steam engines (ive only ran locos, not stationary engines, but still relevant) ARE alive! Witnessing a skilled engine-man get the most out of a loco is a truly awe inspiring site.I had the pleasure for firing for old guys (now passed, RIP) who worked locos when they were in service.The skill these guys possessed was in another realm to the modern trained drivers.They always used less steam to go faster!
Anybody can drive a diesel, just notch it up! Takes real skill to control cutoff and regulator positions in a steam loco, my hats are of to all the old timers out there, the numbers are ever decreasing and it will nto be long until they are all gone! I'm so thankful for the experiences i have had in the past that would never have been possible without them.I haven't been involved for a long time,but i will never forget.On the rare occasions i hear a loco working the mainline, i get shivers.
Can't even imagine the amount of noise in that enginehall back in the days. 😬
Beautiful ! If only Man had as much pride in his work today !
One of Londons hidden treasures a truly awe inspiring construction. The scale, grandeur, attention to detail and engineering are all mind blowing. Visit if you can you'll not be disappointed.
Magnificent presentation. Very educational. The trust is to be commended for saving and bringing back this beauty form the Victorian era.
Unbelievably what an installation, the guide is well informed.
Great history of industrial revolution.
What an amazingly beautiful architecture and it's " only " a sewage pumping station. Today they are just grey and cold concrete blocks.
What an era. Victorian era public works are just beautiful.
The victorians did achieve some of the most beautiful buildings, and the build quality is second to none. We are lucky that these groups preserve this stuff for our kids to see and understand.
As a former boilermaker mechanic and wastewater treatment plant operator, I found this video incredibly fascinating!!! Thanks for posting this informative tour. As I have told my children and their friends who have wrinkled their noses at my occupation, just try living a week without access to a flush toilet and clean running water. Then tell me about how unimportant my job is.... LOL!!!
Down in the bowels of Britain. Interesting feat of engineering & architecture back in the day. Outstanding video.
Just look at the amazing decorations in a building designed to manage waste.
Just where did the western world loose all sense of beauty? Why must public buildings look so damn awful today?
because its easy and more so cheap to do were going backwards disguised as going forwards !!
That's good, I'd rather see the used to maintain safe, efficient equipment. Back then it was new and there weren't many of them. Cam you imagine the cost to elaborately decorate thousands of water treatment plants supporting billions of more customers now? They use the money for more practical parts of the infrastructure, royalty also toured these stations and they wanted to impress them. This was during the height of the British empire and they were flush with money. Nowadays few people see water treatment plants as well.
Very cool! A lot of similarities in design and construction to our local pumping station here in Spotswood,Victoria,Australia that dates from the 1890's.
I do recall seeing the engines run (on air unfortunately) when i was a wee lad in the 80's but im pretty sure they don't do it anymore as it was causing excessive wear due to hydrostatic lubricators not working correctly on air.Hopefully one day they get enough funding to get a modern boiler to run them as they should be run, on steam!
What a totally fantastic tour of this beautiful building, so interesting - love all the ornate touches in the interior. The guide knew his stuff as well. Thanks heaps for posting this.
Thanks for your support :) we have lots of other explores if your interested
they dont build stuff like they used too, the workmanship is amazing total pride in the job
WOW, just look at the colors and design of the inside! I'm blown away
I love the architectural little pieces of the building, they are really fantastic to see.
If only we had the pride today to build such a beautiful building .
Why do people dislike videos like this? I don't get it I could understand someone not being interested, then why watch? But to dislike something objective doesn't make sense. Personally I've always had a passion for Victorian industrial archaeology especially the Thames waterworks. Thanks for posting.
That was all around great. My congratulations and deepest appreciation for the Victorians who built that amazing place, the Engine Trust and all the people who are working to restore it, and to you guys for showing to us. I've never seen a more beautiful sewage facility!
Very interesting movie folks, I really enjoyed watching this.
Such wonderful and beautiful workmanship on technology from the Victorian Era.
Thank you folk for the fantastic tour through a grand old building.👍 They don't make em like that anymore!
Absolutely beautiful. We have some similarly beautiful pieces of public infrastructure here in the states. Amazing to see these types of structures as you really get a sense of just how much pride we used to put into things like this. Now, infrastructure is just another budget to be cut, outsourced to the cheapest contractor. Sad really.
Fascinating tour, thanks to all the worked to put this excellent video together.
thanks for your support :)
Love the Victorian day era mechanical engineering and design works. Thank you for your tour video!
Sorry ian &Chris just come across this brilliant video on your channel jus brilliant guys thanks
thanks for your support folk :)
such a beautiful place to see even in videos...i may be across the pond but boy i truly wish i could see that in person!
Trust me on this , if you ever come over here I would put you up and take you for a visit as it is truly amazing . Much better than going to the shard for instance
I love the artistic influence of the Victorian Era building!
The London sewage system that Bazalgette designed was one of the greatest feats of engineering ever. That pumping station is a work of art. It is amazing what hard work people are prepared to do to preserve our heritage. Nice vid, will have to put Crossness on the to visit list. Fantastic film.
Fantastic Victorian Vision, we should be very proud of it, the trust are doing a great job, well done to all concerned...
Jokes aside, that was truly fascinating. I lone old pump houses and victoriana, and this just took my breath away. I would happily kill to explore a place like that.
Does anyone remember Mark Williams Industrial Revolutions? It was a great series, but he hardly scratched the surface of the place, I loved seeing the "bowels" and the underside of the pumps. Thanks so much
Definitely worth visiting on a steaming day. The new works next-door are huge, but not accessible to the public.
Getting better and better. Thanks.
Very neat place to see. This pumping station along with others helps show the huge changes being made to sanitary sewer design the world over.
That was a great tour! Interesting building and a very good tourguide!
It was great watching this video as I just made a little video myself including this place....my own personal belief is that it was constructed many years before the official narrative says it was built.......I would love to be able to see explore the lower levels without any restrictions.......the work I have been doing calls in to question a lot of construction the Victorians lay claim to..........I noticed a few comments the guide made that does not make sense to me however I view theses places from a slightly different angle.........a very good video enjoyed it a lot.
Truly amazing what people built back then. Built to last
Love finding videos like this. So interesting and a pleasure to watch. Kudos to Chris the guide. Sure knows his stuff!
Fantastic engineering and great video thanks. Just a bit of info on the funny shaped pipe is called a expansion loop and is there to allow long runs of pipe to expand and contract
I love these big steam engines! This was very interesting and I will watch it again!
I love watching your videos, I work nights and I'm always itching to get home and watch them! You make me want to come visit England again.
Hats off to your expert guide, living history at its best. Brilliant video, just great viewing. I'm hooked!
Thank you for the tour. Makes me really happy that it is being restored and not lost in time.
Absolutely amazing!!
steam punk heaven! Fantastic, Thanks to all three of you!
I would enjoy to see all 4 engines working!. What a great place.
That would be amazing to see :)
and we think we are really something with what we build today. Just the scale of the thing, and all done in 2 years.
Absolutely fantastic gentleman, thank you so much, to all three of you gents, One of your best!!
That was amazing. Just the level of detail in the iron work, brick work and work on the steam engines is something that will never be duplicated today. the rush to get things built is pushing the pride of craftmanship to the wayside.
OOhhhhh..........just look at the size of them nuts!!!!!!!! Great documentary, you can see the pride and effort put into this place, not only practical but beautiful also, the builders didn't need it to look so ornamental but they did it anyway, a special kind of craftmanship.
Awesome video, guys!!! BTW, that loop in the piping @15:30 allows the fixed sections to expand/contract without breaking.
TheMan1510 Exactly. It's sometimes called a horseshoe or lyre loop.
It is an expansion loop in the steam line, and I hope that is not asbestos isolation hanging off it.
Architecture, machinery, and history all in one... doesn't get any better. Great video.
brilliant as usual well done engines trust and crossness volunteers
I love the craftsmanship and the trouble they went to to make it pretty.
What a wonderful building and the workmanship , and the steam engines as well. The size of them is just astonishing.
Oh wow, look at that architecture!
nice explore. i really like the victorian architecture
Fantastic video and great explanation of a historical masterpiece
What an incredible structure. Incredible engineering. Great tour and a brilliant thing being done by the trust to keep such a significant heritage structure in the condition it is!
I have been there on a steaming day, was quite a sight to see with all the fine painted ironwork etc, well worth a visit.
Amazing workmanship and engineering - a great tribute to the industrial might we once had. Excellent video!
This in its day would of been the most high tech industrial invention and engine or machine on the planet , it would of been a marvel to behold , it still is today so you could imagine the awe in that era .
Far from forgotten! This is very well known and has been on TV many times. Bazalgette didn't design the engines, they would have been purchased from a manufacturer of steam plant. The flywheels are not there to control the speed of the engines, they are there to smooth the power delivery! Speed is controlled by a steam regulator valve. Bazalgette designed the overall sewerage system in London, not specific plant and equipment.
Incredible engineering and craftsmanship!
Such prity buildings they made back in the day love all your vids Ian and Chris
Two engineering eras side by side. Epic.
A Great video mate, there is one thing that is apparent, the Victorians had style, just look at the work and workmanship, you would never get that now, to be fair I don't think we have the skill set today. What a real shame. Once we were great..........A steampunk heaven, but a real heaven for me, just seeing it, knowing we did that, but the bittersweet pill is knowing we did that. We could not today......Sad.
In Hamilton, Ontario we have a very similar looking pump station. If you are interested you can look up Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology. Cool!
This is a cathedrale of steam punk!! Very nice and truly impressive!
Always amazed by the workings and awkward beauty of these types of old infrastructure from the past, great video and great tour guide... well done all !
+ IKS - Greetings from Nevada, U.S.A. , Thank You for the tour, very fascinating. I'd love to see them restore one of the Steam Engines and rocker-beam pumps to operating condition, and then get to see it in operation. I think that would be quite a sight to behold.
very cool, i find old infrastructure so fascinating
Seen videos on this place before but never as good as this, what a place can't get over how big it is, Thanks for a great video. Enjoy what you present, here in Australia we seem to forget our history. thanks again.
Oh I am involved with a steam museum here, love the old stuff.
amazing folks! love it 👍
Back when craftsmanship was done by craftsmen with pride!
Amazing place ... Good to see the unrestored areas .
How can a simple pumping station be more beautiful than anything luxurious created today? Mankind is going downhill or is it that evolution works backward like the bible said : from perfection to ....
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Kiwi AustEcon, you have a completely slanted view of history. While I admire the architecture of this sewage pumping house, at the time it was built the gap between the haves and the have-nots was staggering. London's working poor lived in overcrowded slums while the social elite entertained each other at dinner each night in their large country estates or in their spacious city homes (they often had both). If you were unemployed, you were sent to a workhouse where you unraveled old rope back into fibres (oakum) to caulk wooden ships or you powered a treadmill like a human on a hamster wheel. Yeah, f*@& socialism.
fuck socialism indeed. It is government that monopolises big business by creating barriers to entry. Minimum wage hurts the least educated, by making them unemployed... YEP. Fuck socialism indeed.
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What a fantastic and interesting building! I love seeing these old Victorian which were decorated as well as a museum even though it's only use was to keep London free of disease. Chris was a perfect tour guide. Thank you for this video.
Beautiful building.
Absolutely outstanding video chaps. Very interesting & educational. Cheers for documenting
This is just amazing!!! What a great piece of history to keep alive!!!! Thank you for the video and thank all involved for inviting you and allowing the filming.
Awesome job in the restoration!!!!
Bloody amazing place.. great work IKS..
Such a simple engine made big. And elegantly made.
Beautiful stuff. Would make great surroundings for a steampunk museum if the building is ever abandoned.
It's amazing that such a neat relic still exists considering the boom of construction post war. Thanks for taking us along!