Thousands of people have visited a Victorian pumping station in Leicester to see all four of its steam powered engines back in action.

A museum is hosting an open day as part of a series of events to commemorate its 50th year. The Abbey Pumping Station pumped Leicester's sewage from 1891 to 1964, with the engines restored after ...

The station pumps raised the sewage in the London sewerage system between the two Low Level Sewers and the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage ...

A VICTORIAN building that was once used to pump out London's sewage has become an unlikely hit with holidaymakers. Located in Abbey Wood in South East London, Crossness Pumping Station was built ...

Leicester's Abbey Pumping Station Museum will hold a family fun day this weekend to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The event, on Sunday, August 20, will see the pumping station’s beam engines ...

A pumping station will today celebrate 150 years since its completion by the great civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette.

One way of doing that is to visit the Crossness Pumping Station near Abbey Wood, which is a spectacular Grade I listed building that was called “The Cathedral on the Marshes”.

The Abbey Pumping Station pumped Leicester's sewage from 1891 to 1964, with the engines restored after the station became a museum.

Thousands of people have visited a Victorian pumping station in Leicester to see all four of its steam powered engines back in action.