East London's Crossness Sludge Incinerator - a beautiful way to do a dirty job!

[TheOingoBoingoBandit]

Came across this magnificant piece of architecture yesterday - a sludge incinerator based at the Crossness sewage works in Bexley, East London.

With a job like that, you'd expect it to look like some rectangular monument to brutalism, instead it's an impressive metallic marvel.




http://www.umcus.org/~discjirm/walks/walk_pics/Digital/20021202/Small/P2002C020039.JPG

http://www.umcus.org/~discjirm/walks/walk_pics/Digital/20021202/Small/P2002C020041.JPG

http://www.deltat.co.uk/mech-handling/sludge.jpg

http://www.pipex.ltd.uk/additional/caseHistoryImages/38_2.jpg



Some more information about the Crossness sludge incinerator... (http://gihs.gold.ac.uk/gihs9.html#crossness)

Google maps satellite photo (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=london&ll=51.504856,0.145515&spn=0.002937,0.007767&t=k&hl=en)

[Tubeman]

"Sludge Incinerator"... Love it!

I've never seen this gem before, probably because Crossness is a desolate headland in the Thames Estuary which you have to pass through Thamesmead to get to!

Cool building though :)

[great prairie]

looks like a waste of money

[TheOingoBoingoBandit]

looks like a waste of money


In the UK, we incinerate our sh*t, while in America they elect it.


;)

[bustero]

Good Job of Industrial Architecture.

[Maroon Grown]

any old pics of the old one. i did a uni assignment on londons sewers that bazalgette created. he built the first sewage pumping station at crossness.

during my research, i couldnt beleive the environmental impacts your ancestors were placing upon that river. i dunno about the thames today, but it would still be recovering wouldnt it??????

[Zenith]

the thames is enormously clean today...maybe the cleanest major river of any city, well very clean anyway....all sorts of species of fish etc have returned.