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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
An 1885 pumping station on the Lea kept by volunteers, with its Marshall steam engines, a Victoria line carriage and the fire engines of the valley.
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Also in Museums.
The Walthamstow Urban District Council built the pumphouse in 1885 to lift the town's sewage over the Lea marshes, and the volunteers who saved it have filled the engine house and the yard with the industrial history of the valley: the two Marshall engines that did the pumping, a 1968 Victoria line tube car you can sit in, fire appliances, a Bristol bus and the collection of local engineering from Xylonite plastics to the first British petrol car, built at Walthamstow in 1892. Open on Sundays, and it is becoming the Lea Valley Experience, so the displays are on the move.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | Closed |
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | 10:30 – 15:30 |
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.