PEOPLE flocked to see a piece of industrial history which is part of an award-winning restoration project.
More than 800 visitors took advantage of an open day at the Crossness beam engine house, now the Crossness Engines Industrial Museum, in Abbey Wood, to see one of the marvels of Victorian engineering.
Volunteers with the Crossness Engines Trust recently won a Museum and Heritage award for their work in restoring two of the four giant beam engines and the interior of the pumping station.
Crossness was part of the new sewerage system for London designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in the 1860s.
Visitors marvelled at the pumping station's stunning wrought iron interior and were able to see the fully-restored Prince Consort steam driven beam engine working.
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