https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 10 Apr 2022 08:51:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/#comment-1456116 Sun, 10 Apr 2022 08:51:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191201#comment-1456116 I do however love the architecture of some our Waterworks Pumping Stations!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/#comment-1456115 Sun, 10 Apr 2022 08:49:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191201#comment-1456115 Nothing much changes, does it? The Fat Cats try to hoodwink and continue to fleece us, and plagues continue in one form or another…

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/#comment-1456043 Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:12:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191201#comment-1456043 The East London Waterworks reservoir facility was at Hanworth Rd, near Kempton Park and initially pumped Thames water from Sunbury…later fed from Staines and amalgamated with the separately established Kempton Park waterworks when the MWB was formed

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/#comment-1456042 Sat, 09 Apr 2022 13:07:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191201#comment-1456042 Fascinating story.
A warning from history.
Continued by your local Tory vermin.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/#comment-1456040 Sat, 09 Apr 2022 11:59:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191201#comment-1456040 Excellent survey of such an important subject. And how typical that the notorious Merceron, about whom there is a Spitalfields Publication, should have been involved in this scandalous situation!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/#comment-1456033 Sat, 09 Apr 2022 10:55:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191201#comment-1456033 Two comments:
1. It is only marginally relevant, but I have just discovered (from Smiles’ Engineers, John Murray, 1904) that London’s New River is much older than, as a resident of Stoke Newington, I had ever imagined or knew. Apparently it was first created in the early to mid 1600’s, and partly financed by King James I.
2. Sewage contamination is surely to be expected when houseboats are permitted, even if they are nominally required to use self-contained toilet devices.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/#comment-1456031 Sat, 09 Apr 2022 10:37:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191201#comment-1456031 An excellent ‘teaser’ to what is undoubtedly an excellent researched & penned book. Looking forward to hearing Nick in person & buying several copies of this book.
Thank you.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/09/the-east-london-waterworks-scandal/#comment-1456018 Sat, 09 Apr 2022 08:33:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191201#comment-1456018 Most interesting. The last sentence if food for thought. Water, electricity, public transport, etc. cannot be in private hands. Have a good week end.

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