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Ferry Lane tractor working in filter

Ferry Lane tractor working in filter

Walthamstow Reservoirs

The Ferry Lane Filter Beds - underneath what is now the car park for the Copper Mills site. These show how labour intensive water production was in the last century, and show the start of the mechanisation of the slow sand filter skimming process.

Details

County Waltham Forest
Waste or Water Water
Infrastructure or Non-Infrastructure Non Infrastructure
Dates of Creation 1950
Format type photographic image: glass
Item location London Metropolitan Archives
Reference Code ACC/2558/MW/GP/02/243/008
Notes
Parent Company Metropolitan Water Board