Hammersmith Pumping Station - Great West Road, London, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 51° 29.465 W 000° 14.440
30U E 691553 N 5708048
This plaque, erected by the Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group, is attached to the north face of the former pumping station situated on the south side of the Great West Road.
Waymark Code: WMXH07
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/12/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member greysman
Views: 1

The plaque, that was erected in 2011 by the Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group. is worded:

Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group

HAMMERSMITH
PUMPING STATION
was built by the
Metropolitan Water Board in 1909.
It formed part of a complex of earlier
waterworks buildings begun around a
century earlier by the West Middlesex
Waterworks Company and their engineer,
William Tierney Clarke, designer
of the first Hammersmith Bridge.
The pumping station was
decommissioned
in 1997.

2011

Type of Historic Marker: Metal plaque

Historical Marker Issuing Authority: Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group

Age/Event Date: 01/01/1909

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