EWRI Friends Visit London Water & Steam Museum and Union Chain Bridge–IHCEL
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2023
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We strongly recommend EWRI members visit the London Water & Steam Museum. This presentation includes many slides of this outstanding museum near the Kew tube station. London Museum of Water & Steam features artefacts and interactive exhibits on water. On October 26, 2018, David Gilbert and Jerry Rogers toured the London Museum of Water & 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’s 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 Corynwall, as well as rotative engines. There are many excellent London water supply and treatment exhibits also. Due to COVID-19, the planned International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark plaque ceremony of July 26, 2020, for the 200-year-old Union Chain Suspension Bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed was cancelled. Note the book: Samuel Brown and Union Chain Bridge: Gordon Miller, Friends of the Union Bridge, 306 pp, 135 photographs, 15.5 GBP. A tour of the Paxton Estate (Paxton Trust), a historic house at Paxton, Berwickshire, was planned to be a part of the plaque ceremony. There is discussion of having a modified plaque ceremony in the spring of 2023 (specific date to be determined) possibly before the May 2023 EWRI Congress in Henderson, Nevada.
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Bulloch, W., K. Bulloch, and J. Rogers. (2019). “The Institution of Civil Engineers 200th Anniversary and Global Engineering Congress October 22-26, 2018-London and Union Chain Bridge,” EWRI 2019 Proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA.
Gordon Miller. (2017-2018). Samuel Brown and UNION CHAIN BRIDGE and the Chainworks of Brown Lenox (306 pp.) by Stephen K. Jones, The Friends of the Union Chain Bridge, Horncliffe, Berwick- upon- Tweed, TD15- 2XT.
Leaflet (THE UNION CHAIN BRIDGE 2019) by the Friends of the Union Chain Bridge.
ANewsletter for the Friends of the Union Chain Bridge A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, December 2018.
Union Change Bridge (UCB) Newsletter Archives.
20 November EGIS Seminar at Heriot- Watt University: Union Chain Bridge Photos from Heriot Watt University: ©HWU-EGIS-IIE.
The Spencer Group, Hull, UK (https://thespencergroup.co.uk/our-work/bridges/historic-bridges/).
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Published online: May 18, 2023
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- Bridge engineering
- Bridges
- Buildings
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engines
- Environmental engineering
- Equipment and machinery
- Facilities (by type)
- Historic buildings
- Historic sites
- History and Heritage
- Practice and Profession
- Public buildings
- Pumping stations
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Water and water resources
- Water management
- Water supply
- Water supply systems
- Water treatment
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