Buildings moment

Goodness, I seem to be having a bit of a buildings moment.  After yesterday's house, here is the old pumping station in Winchester's Garnier Road.  It's actually more in the water meadows than in town.  

This is the info I've gleaned about it:
It was first built by James Lemon, who was the City Engineer from 1878-1880, but the bit you see here was the extension by Walter Anderson erected in 1904.  Its job was to raise sewage from the City to be treated at the works on St Catherine's Hill (these latter are still there - I'm sure you're thrilled to know).  It used household rubbish to power its 2 steam engines until 1975.  It's now offices and much cleaner we hope!

As a piece of industrial architecture I think it's really rather attractive and smiley, but I'm glad I didn't know it in the old days.

Beautiful day today, though it started off distinctly cloudy.  Not all of it was quite as gorgeous as you see here, but I'm certainly not complaining.

Hope your day was fun - have a good evening, lovely peeps  xx