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Ferry Lane, removing sand from filter bed

Ferry Lane, removing sand from filter bed

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 1952
Format type photographic image: glass
Item location London Metropolitan Archives
Reference Code ACC/2558/MW/GP/02/282/017
Notes
Parent Company Metropolitan Water Board