Poop Show

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I enjoyed our trip to Abbey Mills last year and so was interested in Crossness pumping station’s Open Day. This was a different kettle of sewage though, a full grown tourist experience with a café, bric-a-brac stalls, local history society and people dressed up in Victorian garb (incongruously teamed with a mobile phone, a packet of crisps, a high viz vest). There was even a Victorian goth in purple lace hanging around the basement. At these things, I expect a few old men who wanted to be engineers, but there are always families (a family fun day out to a sewage pump!) and even some Young People: the ones sharing our minibus from the station had a definite whiff of hipster about them. I am not really concerned with engine specifications but I’m always interested in How Stuff Was, how things operated in the olden days, how London was before investment bankers and the aforementioned hipsters took over. And it looked very beautiful:







(Photos by David).