Abbey Mills Pumping Station

This was a quick visit after heading over to see Killing Joke gigging in London the night before. The place was just so amazing i had to see it with my own eyes, so Lou and me headed off, skipped the fence and found a way in, a friend waiting in the car (non explorer) meant we didn't have forever ....
Some  Brief history ...
 The original Abbey Mills Pumping Station, in Abbey Lane, London E15, is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver. It was built between 1865 and 1868. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage

The pumps raised the sewage in the London sewerage system between the two Low Level Sewers and the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage produced in London away from the centre of the city.
Two Moorish styled chimneys – unused since steam power had been replaced by electric motors in 1933 – were demolished during the Second World War, as they were a landmark for German bombers on raids over the London docks.
The building still houses electric pumps – to be used in reserve for the new facility next door.


This place is for real, the worlds most beutifull shit pumping station?