Museum
Cambridge Museum of Technology
Victorian sewage pumping station once fuelled by burning rubbish, with working steam engines.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Cambridge Museum of Technology goes back to eighteen ninety-four, when a Victorian pumping station by the River Cam opened with a plan to run on the town's own household rubbish. You'll meet the horses and carts, the sewage farm at Milton, and the nine men who kept the boilers stoked. Best heard standing near the tall brick chimney.
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