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The pumping station at Croydon is still there (albeit muchly tarted up since the riots and since this photo was taken):
Presumably this is one of the places where, each time they started up the engines, someone had to hold a sack over the end of the pipe to catch the rats as they were expelled, having been enjoying chewing on the leather seals that were kept tender with applications of tallow and beeswax.
Ludd
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This building
http://goo.gl/maps/xfCB9
Just off the South Circ, is a lock keeper's cottage. Adjacent to one of 28 locks, in two flights between Surrey Commercial Docks (as it was known) and Croydon.
Other lock keeper's cottages are available.
I can't help but imagine that the massive, sign written retaining wall in Shardeloes Road is canal related.
I should, in fairness, point out that it was Ludd who made me aware of the chunk of canal which remains in Dacres Wood Nature Reserve when, on one occasion, we were returning with Ludd the Youngest, from Mother's, having scored a steampunk typewriter.
Ludd - I'm unaware of there being any remains of the pneumatic railway - I'd be interested to know of any.