Lambeth Waterworks Company
Industry | Water supply |
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Founded | 1785London, UK | in
Defunct | June 24, 1904 |
Fate | Municipalised |
Successor | Metropolitan Water Board |
The Lambeth Waterworks Company was a
Origins
Lambeth Waterworks Act 1785 | |
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Act of Parliament | |
![]() 25 Geo. 3. c. 89 | |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 4 July 1785 |
The Lambeth Waterworks Company, founded in 1785 to supply water to south and west London, established premises on the south bank of the
Infrastructure
In 1832 the company built a reservoir at Streatham Hill, and in 1834 obtained an
Around the 1850s the quality of drinking water became a matter of public concern, and
However the inlets pumped in too much silt with the water because of turbulence caused by the discharge (confluence) of the River Mole/Ember and The Rythe into the Thames immediately upstream. The Lambeth Waterworks Company thus moved upstream to Molesey between Sunbury and Molesey Locks, where they built the Molesey Reservoirs in 1872 and the Chelsea Waterworks Company followed them there three years later.[6]
See also
References
- ^ UCLA Department of Epidemiology Lambeth Waterwork history
- ^ Stockwell: Brixton Hill area, Survey of London: volume 26: Lambeth: Southern area (1956), pp. 100-105. Date accessed: 22 September 2008
- ^ John Snow On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (Pamphlet) 1849, 1850
- ^ An Act to make better Provision respecting the Supply of Water to the Metropolis, (15 & 16 Vict. C.84)
- ^ "Location of water companies". www.ph.ucla.edu.
- ^ A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the Borough of Elmbridge