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Jurek
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.