Addington Beam Engines
16mm film Black & White Sound 1973 0:00
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Summary: Short film from the BBC about the Cornish Beam engines and Lancashie boilers in Addington Pumping station in Croydon and the men who operate them. The engines have been working nonstop for over one hundred years and are about to be stopped for the new mod
Title number: 15118
LSA ID: LSA/18116
Description: Short film from the BBC about the Cornish Beam engines and Lancashie boilers in Addington Pumping station in Croydon and the men who operate them. The engines have been working nonstop for over one hundred years and are about to be stopped for the new mod
Further information: London Metropolitan Archives' holdings of this title may not be available to view; those available are accessed by appointment only. Please contact LMA for details. In January 1885 Croydon Corporation started to build a new well outside the town at Addington on the back slope of the North Downs. Here a well 200 feet deep gathered water from an
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