Victorian Pumping Stations

Victorian pumping stations are colorful cathedrals of utility, built to encage powerful steam engines. Trevor Yorke's illustrated guide tells the story of these buildings and explains why they were built in such a flamboyant manner, including their architectural features and interior decoration.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 64 pages
Publication date: 19 April 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Victorian pumping stations are colourful cathedrals of utility. Their imposing and striking exteriors enclose highly decorative cast-iron frames, built to encage powerful steam engines. They are glorious buildings which display the Victorians’ architectural confidence and engineering skills. More than that, they represent a key part of the story of urban development and how our towns and cities were shaped in this period of ground-breaking invention and civic pride. In this illustrated guide, Trevor Yorke tells the story of Victorian pumping stations and explains why they were built in such a flamboyant manner, describing their architectural features and showing how their mighty steam engines worked. He includes examples of their glorious interior decoration from pumping stations across the country and provides a detailed list of those which are open to visitors.

Weight: 146g
Dimension: 151 x 210 x 5 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784422684