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Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum

Museum · Walthamstow, England

The Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum, 10 South Access Road, E17 8AX, opens every Sunday between 10:30 and 16:00, last entry 15:45, and the operator states that entry is free and donations are welcome. It is a one-day-a-week museum in a building listed Grade II as NHLE 1379203 under the statutory name 'The Pump House'.

History

The list entry describes a sewage pumping station of 1877 for Walthamstow Urban District Council, extended to the west in 1896, with the present engines installed in 1897: the pair of Marshall C-type horizontal steam engines the museum runs, numbers 27384 and 27385, are those 1897 engines and replaced a Tangye set. The museum also holds fire-fighting equipment from late Victorian pumps and ladder-carts to a modern fire engine, original Victoria line tube carriages, and a model railway representing the Liverpool Street to Chingford line across several periods. The Grade II listing was made on 26 October 1999 as list entry 1379203, at grid reference TQ 36296 88261, a late date among the borough's mostly 1951 and 1987 entries. St James Street station, on the Weaver line, is 559 m away, and buses 58, 158, 212, 230, 675 and W19 pass within 500 m.

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10 South Access Road, Walthamstow, London E17 8AX

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