3H Visit to the Steam Museum
Posted by Mrs Heyhoe on 31/01/24 at 08:20 AM
Yesterday, 3H went to the London Museum of Water and Steam. This was originally called the Kew Bridge Pumping Station and it was originally opened in 1838 by the Grand Junction Waterworks Company to make use of the cleaner river water there.
In the 1830s, Brentford was mostly farmland. The River Thames was not polluted by factory waste. Filter beds and reservoirs were soon added along with additional engines, boilers and underground pipe-work, supplying water to an increasingly larger area and a growing population.
The children had fun sketching the tower and a turbine in the garden. Afterwards, we went to look at the River Thames in the Waterman’s Park.
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