EWRI Friends Visit London Water and Steam Museum and 26 July 2020, Union Chain Bridge—IHCEL

We strongly recommend EWRI people visit the London Water and Steam Museum. This presentation includes many slides of this outstanding museum near the Kew tube station. London Museum of Water and Steam features artefacts and interactive exhibits on water. On 26 October 2018, David Gilbert and Jerry Rogers toured the London Museum of Water and Steam, located at Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, London TW8 0EN near Kew Station. Kew Bridge Pumping Station was originally opened in 1838 by the Grand Junction Waterworks Company. In 1999, the United Kingdom Government Department for Culture, Media, and Sport described Kew Bridge pumping station as “the most important historic site of the water supply industry in Britain.” The heart of the museum showcases a majestic collection of steam pumping engines, including engines from Cornwall, as well as rotative engines. There are many good London water supply and treatment exhibits also. In addition, there will be an ASCE, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), and Japan Society of Civil Engineers International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark plaque ceremony 26 July 2020, for the 200 year-old Union Chain Suspension Bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed. There is a free: “Union Chain Bridge Bicentenary 1820–2020 Conference” coordinated by The Friends of the Union Chain Bridge in association with Northumberland County Council to present a mini-presentations programme 26 July 2020. Note the book: Samuel Brown and Union Chain Bridge: Gordon Miller, Friends of the Union Bridge, 306 pp., 135 photographs, 15.5 GBP. People can visit the Paxton Estate (Paxton Trust), a historic house at Paxton, Berwickshire. In addition, the Scotland ICE group invites ASCE members to visit the “Engineering Foresight From Hindsight Conference” in Edinburgh 24 July 2020, and a summer ICE Scotland tour of Newcastle and historic sites 25 July 2020. Some photos from the co-authors’ tour of Union Chain Bridge in October 2018 will be featured at the EWRI 2020 Conference.