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Shown here are the two
locations in 1844 of the South London Waterworks. The headquarters
(and engine) is by the base of the Vauxhall Bridge and the two
reservoirs are in Kennington to the North of The Oval. While the
locations are correct, the name of the water company is wrong, having
been renamed the Vauxhall Waterworks Company in 1834. The
headquarters and reservoirs sites were sold to the Phoenix Gas Company
in 1847, two years after the Vauxhall Waterworks Company merged with the
Lambeth Water Company to become the Southwark and Vauxhall Water
Company. |
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Source:
Laurie's Plan of London, Westminster and Southwark, surveyed by John
Outhett, published by Richard Holmes Laurie, 1844.
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