A tall, slender brick chimney rises above a brown brick building featuring arched windows and a central lantern roof window.

Pumping Station / Museum of Technology, Cambridge

History of the Pumping Stattion Cambridge

The Cheddars Lane pumping station was built 1894-6 and operated as a combined sewage pumping and waste destructor station. It is now the Cambridge Museum of Technology. The octagonal chimney is 53 metres high.

1892

A watercolor painting shows a river flowing past several waterside buildings toward a tall chimney and a church tower in fog.

River Cam from Chesterton Road 1892 (MoC8:92:59)

It is a listed building.

A brick building with an arched window and tall chimney stands behind a stone wall fronted by several bare, upright trees.

Pumping Station (MoC41/69)

There is a detailed Wikipedia article.

A large, cylindrical iron apparatus with a metal frame sits on a cobblestone surface before a brick wall and debris.

Bellows from Runciman’s veterinary Forge, Downing Street, now at Cheddars lane (MoC3.8.73)

A brick building with arched windows stands behind a low wall, with a car parked on the left and a figure walking near trees.

Cheddar Lane Pumping Station (MoC31/92/76)

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