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Addington Pumping Station

From Graces Guide

at Croydon

1888 One engine installed from Easton and Anderson

1891 '...the works at Addington, and there they had only one engine, having constructed the boiler and engine house so as to take another engine. Mr. Walker then said the water supply was derived from Surrey-street, where four wells existed. They had there two engines, one of 110 horse-power and one of 150 horse power, and about 21 million gallons were pumped. At Addington pumping station they bad an engine of 125 horsepower which lifted 77,700 gallons per hour 250 feet high to the reservoir, on the Addington Hills capable of holding 5 million gallons, the overflow from which was 554 feet above sea level, and 87 feet above Upper Norwood, the highest level in the Borough...'[1]

1930 Asking for tenders for the Supply and Erection of Three Boilers at their Addington Pumping Station, Featherbed Lane, Addington.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Croydon Chronicle and East Surrey Advertiser - Saturday 27 June 1891
  2. Croydon Times - Saturday 29 November 1930