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The Markfield Beam Engine is a 100 horsepower beam pumping engine, built in 1886 to transfer sewage from the Middlesex district of Tottenham into the London system for treatment at the Beckton works. The engine is housed in a Grade II listed building, "Engine House No. 2", and, having been restored to working order, the engine is the main feature of Markfield Museum. The museum is sited on the northern edge of Markfield Park, a public open space. ==History== The Tottenham and Wood Green sewage treatment works and pumping station was opened in 1864 . The Markfield Beam Engine itself was built between 1886 and 1888. It was commissioned on 12 July 1888 and saw continuous duty from that time until late in 1905, when it was relegated to standby duty for stormwater pumping. By the late 1950s it was decided that the site was too small to have a digested sludge system installed and that the treatment charges levied by the London County Council meant that it was more cost-effective to have all effluents directed through a new low-level sewer to the rebuilt Deephams Sewage Treatment Works at Edmonton. Thus pumping of sewage would no longer be required at the Markfield Works. In 1964, after more than one hundred years of operation, all the incoming sewers were diverted to the extended East Middlesex Works at Deephams. The works were closed and all machinery, apart from the Beam Engine, was scrapped. The site was levelled, apart from the engine house buildings and the settling tanks and filter beds. The engine house was made secure and the Beam Engine mothballed. The former sludge tanks were turned into a communal garden space; however, due to neglect and poor security, the entire area was allowed to become extensively vandalised and overgrown. A full restoration of the park was completed by April 2010, and the park, museum, and beam engine re-opened for public access. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Markfield Road pumping station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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